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Photo Friday: Orkney obsession

10 July, 2009 By

Kirkwall, Orkney, UK; June 2009 In June 2009 work took me to the Orkney Islands, an archipelago off the north-west coast of Scotland. The Shetland Islands are nearby, a bit further north towards Norway. I took the ferry from Aberdeen and landed in Kirkwall on the Orkney “mainland”, a pretty little town with the lovely [...]

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Scotland by Twitter

28 June, 2009 By

I have just got back from two weeks in Scotland, a trip that took me from the Orkney Islands in the north, to the Isle of Skye and Inveraray on the West Coast and home via Glasgow. I couldn’t blog from the road because of a lack of time and reliable internet access, but kept [...]

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Best of the web: Travel inspiration

15 March, 2009 By

A bumper crop of inspirational travel links from the blogosphere. I really enjoyed this month’s round-up. Intelligent Travel is running a series on readers’ guides to their favourite cities. In this post, Londoner Emma Torry gives us a personal tour of Hong Kong, from her top dim sum haunts to her favourite natural beauty spots. [...]

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Carnival of Cities: From Carcassonne to Miami

30 April, 2008 By

I’m delighted to be hosting the Carnival of Cities for a second time on Roaming Tales. This is the 30 April edition and we have a bumper crop of great posts. We seem to be confined to North (and Central) America and Europe this week, though we still have a lot of diversity, from Carcassonne [...]

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