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Bhutan

The Gateway to Bhutan – Phuentsholing

One can enter Bhutan either by road or by air. If you’re flying, your journey will likely touch down at the only international airport in Paro – a tiny strip of tarmac tucked dramatically between mountains, where landing feels like an adventure in itself. But for those who love the romance of the road, crossing […]

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Family

Happy Mother’s Day

August 2006. A teenage girl left home and moved into a strange new city. And then started a series of firsts. Waking up to the shrill alarm of her first mobile phone, doing her own laundry and even buying her own sanitary napkins, it all started. There were no hands to hold, nobody to wipe […]

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Egypt Travelogues

Sun, Sand and the Red Sea – The Sharm-El-Sheikh escape

“Dolce far niente is a way of life” ..that every traveller in the beautiful beach city of Sharm will swear by I knew Sharm-el-Sheikh would be beautiful, but I wasn’t prepared for that moment from my airplane window. As the plane began its descent into Sharm el-Sheikh, I pressed my face to the window, half-expecting […]