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Snapshots of a coastline – Devon, Cornwall

.Reading time 4 minutes.

My family has called Devon home for just over a year now. We were never one for visiting the area on summer holidays when I was a kid, bar one or two caravan holidays in Cornwall, so I never really understood the wild romanticism and the dreamy sighs were about. I’d been brought up near Scarborough, so let’s just […]

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On sport and growing up

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There’s something so amazing about running around like a mad thing until there is no breath left in your lungs. It reminds you of childhood, of having so much energy and no self-consciousness, of reaching and pushing your limits without even trying because you are having so much damn fun. At least that was my […]

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Fishing in Helinsgør

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I’d taken the train from Copenhagen to Helsingør largely to see Kronborg Castle. Kronborg was immortalised in Shakespeare’s play Hamlet as the Danish Prince’s castle ‘Elsinore’, so tourists flock from the world over to get a look into the imagined home of one of literature’s greatest characters. Anything related to Shakespeare is a big thumbs up […]

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10 things I’m excited to read/watch/listen/see in 2015

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2015 is upon us and here are a few things that I’m excited to watch/see/listen/read in the year that lies ahead. WATCH  Thunderbirds Are Go! Duh-duh-duh-duh, duh-duh-duh duh-duh duh-duh-duh duh-duhhhhh…(that’s the Thunderbirds theme, FYI) I unashamedly love Thunderbirds. But the last adaptation, a 2004 film remake with Sir Ben Kingsley, was a pretty sub-par attempt. […]

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You CAN afford to go to Denmark

.Reading time 10 minutes.

The first thing that people said when I mentioned I was going to Copenhagen, whether they had been there themselves or not, was ‘omg it’s so expensive’ (ok, maybe not the ‘omg’ bit). By the time I actually got to Copenhagen I was terrified that I was going to be mugged (figuratively) of my money the […]

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