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Jun 27th, 2018 |
By Natasha Blair
Natasha Blair visits the New Forest National Park to discover what the area has to offer.
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Tags: Beaulieu, Beaulieu Abbey., Buckler’s Hard, GoNewForest card, National Motor Museum, New Forest, New Forest Activities
May 20th, 2018 |
By Natasha Blair
Natasha Blair explores the literary heritage of a small part of West Yorshire.
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Tags: Bronte Parsonage, Calderdale, halifax, Halifax Minster, Holdsworth House, Howarth, Lumb Bank, Piece Hall, Shibden Hall, Ted Hughes Festival
May 9th, 2018 |
By Natasha Blair
Natasha completes her visit to Zimbabwe and starts this leg of her tour by visiting the Victoria Falls.
Posted in Travel destinations |
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Tags: David Livingstone, RwandAir, Victoria Falls, Victoria Falls National Park, Zambezi River, Zimbabwe
May 6th, 2018 |
By Natasha Blair
With a certain amount of trepidation Natasha Blair visits Zimbabwe and is delighted to find that it has a lot to offer for those who love nature and wildlife.
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Tags: "Big 5", Great Zimbabwe, Harare, Hawange, Matobo National Park, Matopos Hills, Zimbabwe
Feb 26th, 2018 |
By Natasha Blair
The Isle of Wight, off the south coast of England, is known for its outdoor sports such as yachting, boating, walking and cycling but it also has cultural attractions as Natasha Blair found when she visited.
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Tags: Cowes, Dimbola Lodge, Farringford, Isle of Wight, Osborne House, Tapnell Farm Park
Sep 3rd, 2017 |
By Natasha Blair
Natasha visits Hastings on the south coast of England and finds it a haven for children as well as adults.
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Tags: Blue Reef Aquarium, Coastal Currents Arts Festival, England, Hastings, Hastings Castle, Hastings County Park and Nature Reserve, Hastings’ Seafood & Wine Festival, Jerwood Gallery, Kino Teatr
Aug 12th, 2017 |
By Natasha Blair
Natasha visits Hampstead, a nerve centre for artists and the affluent with pretty streets, alleys, and 790 acres of uncultivated parkland known as Hampstead Heath.
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Tags: 2 Willow Road, Burgh House, Fenton House and Garden, Freud Museum - London, Hampstead, Hampstead Heath, Keats House, Kenwood House, London
Aug 11th, 2017 |
By Natasha Blair
Natasha visits the State Rooms at Buckingham Palace to see this year’s exhibition.
Posted in Travel news |
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Tags: Buckingham Palace, London, Queen’s Gallery, Royal Mews, State Rooms - Buckingham Palace
Aug 3rd, 2017 |
By Natasha Blair
Natasha finds that, without going too far afield from central London, you can easily discover some of the city’s lesser-known places.
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Tags: Abbey Road, Camden Market, Canal Café Theatre, Little Venice, London, Lord's, MCC, Open Air Theatre, Primrose Hill, Puppet Theatre Barge, Regent's Park, Regent’s Canal, St John's Wood, ZSL London Zoo
Jul 7th, 2017 |
By Natasha Blair
Natasha Blair and her dog Poppy explore some of these less well-known parts of Somerset and find some hidden treasures.
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Tags: Bakelite Museum, Brean Down, Bridgwater Bay National Nature Reserve, Cleve Abbey, Dunster, Exmoor National Park, Glastonbury, Jurassic Coast, Kilve, Somerset, Steart Peninsula, West Somerset Railway, Williton
Jun 15th, 2017 |
By Natasha Blair
Natasha Blair and her dog Poppy visited to see what Plymouth has to offer and found that the majority, but not all, the activities happen around its harbour known as the Plymouth Sound.
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Tags: Mount Batten Gun Tower, National Marine Aquarium, Plymouth, Plymouth Hoe, Royal William Yard, Smeaton’s Tower
Jun 3rd, 2017 |
By Natasha Blair
Natasha visits Bucharest one of the fastest growing destination for city breaks. And finds time to go in search of Dracula’s castle.
Posted in Advertorial, Travel destinations |
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Tags: #experiencebucharest, Bran Castle, Bucharest, Dracula, Greenline, Palace of Parliament, Paucescu House, People’s Palace, Romania, Romanian Atheneum, Wizz Air
Mar 6th, 2017 |
By Natasha Blair
Natasha Blair discovers the region of France that encompasses the vineyards that produce the grapes for champagne.
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Tags: champagne, Essoyes, France, Moulin de la Fleuristerie, Orient Forest, Renoir Cultural Centre, Rheims, Rheims cathedral, Troyes
Dec 14th, 2016 |
By Natasha Blair
Natasha Blair takes a road trip from Sardinia’s capital Cagliari in the south, to Olbia in the North, visiting some of the villages along the way.
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Tags: Cagliari, Castelsardo, Costa Smeralda, Galtelli, Laconi, Olbia, Oliena, Sardara, Sardinia
Nov 2nd, 2016 |
By Natasha Blair
Natasha explores Weymouth and Portland in Dorset – part of the Jurassic coastline.
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Tags: Dorset, Dorset Wildlife Trust, Jurassic Coast, Jurassic Cycle Trail, Nothe Fort, Portland, Weymouth, Weymouth SEA LIFE Adventure Park
Oct 27th, 2016 |
By Natasha Blair
Natasha Blair visits Northern Portugal, known primarily for its production of port, to discover what else the area has to offer.
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Tags: Braga, Guimaraes, Lello Bookshop, Music Auditorium, Palacio da Bolsa, port, Porto, Portugal, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Taylor's
Sep 13th, 2016 |
By Natasha Blair
With demand for air travel ever increasing, the decision on whether the third runway should be at Heathrow or Gatwick is finally being made this October. Natasha Blair takes a visit behind the scenes at Heathrow.
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Tags: Brexit, Heathrow
Jul 29th, 2016 |
By Natasha Blair
Umbria is one of the lesser-known regions of Italy. For anyone wanting to immerse themselves into the Italian way of life, its culture, and food then this is an ideal area to visit. Natasha Blair makes a welcome return visit to discover more about the area.
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Tags: Archeologia Arborea Project, Bevagna, Italy, Perugia, Umbria
Jul 23rd, 2016 |
By Natasha Blair
Fashioning a Reign: 90 Years of Style from the Queen’s Wardrobe is the theme, this year, for the opening to the public of the State Rooms at Buckingham Palace.
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Tags: Buckingham Palace, Fashioning a Reign: 90 Years of Style from the Queen’s Wardrobe, Queen’s Gallery, Royal Collection, Royal Mews, State Rooms
Jul 11th, 2016 |
By Natasha Blair
Natasha Blair takes a visit to the largely undiscovered Subcarpathian region of Poland to see what the area has to offer.
Posted in Travel destinations |
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Tags: All Saints Church - Blizne, Lake Solina, MH Sanok, Museum of Folk Architecture, Podkarpackie, Poland, Rzeszow, Sanok, Solina, Subcarpathia
Jun 19th, 2016 |
By Natasha Blair
Natasha visits Greenwich, just thirty minutes from the centre of London and, much of which, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Tags: Chapel of St. Peter & St. Paul, Cutty Sark, Greenwich, London, National Maritime Museum, Old Royal Naval College, Royal Museums Greenwich
Jun 4th, 2016 |
By Natasha Blair
Most people holiday in Bodrum for the beaches and the sun but Natasha Blair turns her back on that and looks at what else the area has to offer.
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Tags: Bodrum, Bodrum Museum of Underwater Archaeology, Gumusluk, Sazköy, Turkey
May 14th, 2016 |
By Natasha Blair
Steeped in history Winchester certainly is. You only realise just how important it was in our past when you tour the city.
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Tags: Alfred the Great, Cheyney Court, Henry of Blois, Hospital of St. Cross, Winchester, Winchester Cathedral, Wnchester College
Feb 14th, 2016 |
By Natasha Blair
With temperatures in the twenties in the winter and during Spring half-term, Natasha confirms that Tenerife is a year round destination.
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Tags: Bodegas Monje, Mount Tiede, San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Tenerife
Jan 9th, 2016 |
By Natasha Blair
The Northern Cape is a virtually undiscovered area of South Africa, and an ideal destination for anyone looking to get away from it all, and happy with a self-drive holiday.
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Tags: Augrabies Falls National Park, Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Northern Cape, South Africa
Jan 3rd, 2016 |
By Natasha Blair
Natasha says that Vietnam offers great value to British people looking for somewhere exotic, comparatively safe and out of the ordinary.
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Tags: Halong Bay, Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park, Temple of Literature, Vietnam, Vietnam Airlines
Oct 10th, 2015 |
By Natasha Blair
In the wake of the Winter Olympics 2022 bid in Almaty, and Expo 2017 taking place in Astana, Natasha Blair visited Kazakhstan, in Central Asia.
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Tags: Almaty, Astana, Kazakhstan, Lesnaya Skazka
Oct 4th, 2015 |
By Natasha Blair
Natasha visits Ghent and finds that its historical centre survived the war almost intact.
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Tags: Belgium, Castle of the Counts, Ghent, Ghent Jazz Festival, Gravensteen, rabot