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Guest Post: Live Music and Shenanigans at Bestival on the Isle of Wight

Nicola Marchant, the lucky winner of the competition I ran to win two tickets to Bestival, tells us about the live acts and Shenanigans at this year’s festival!          With its annual slot at the...

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Postcard of the Week: Bullrunning and Festivals in Pamplona

        A few weeks ago I headed back to Northern Spain for the first time in over 10 years (I spent 2 weeks on a school exchange, living with a family in Jaca, years ago) to attend the wedding of a...

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Postcard of the Week: Antique postcards of Genoa

A good friend of mine Annalisa (who blogs at Viaggio Vagando) comes from Genoa, a city on the north-west coast of Italy, very close to the Côte d’Azur in France. Knowing of my penchant for postcards,...

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Postcard of the Week: Antique postcards of the Ligurian Coast

Last week I wrote about the antique postcards of Genoa that my dear friend Annalisa showed to me (check out her blog at Viaggio Vagando). She also showed me these stunning postcards of small towns on...

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Quirky History of London Walking Tour

        Back in August I went on a lovely walking tour around Shoreditch, one of the up-and-coming areas in East London which draws artists and a trendy crowd as strongly as a magnet. I wrote about it...

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Wine tasting at Ô Chateau in Paris

        During my trip to Paris back in July, one of my favourite parts of the weekend was actually a suggestion from a good friend from university who lives in Paris. (I know – I am very envious as...

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International Education Week 2013 and my interview as part of the Language...

        This week, 18-24th November 2013, is British Council’s International Education Week and throughout the week they aim to “promote the importance of an international dimension to primary and...

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Postcard of the Week: Pullman St Pancras Hotel in London

         Last week a friend and I attended a launch party for a very exciting newly renovated hotel, the Pullman St Pancras, right next to King’s Cross St Pancras station – perfect location if you’re...

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The ‘Languages for the Future’ report by the British Council and...

Reblogged from Worldly Minded:         Last night I attended a reception held at the British Council in London to celebrate International Education Week 2013, which is running this week from 18-24th...

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My weekend jaunt around Boulogne-sur-Mer and the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region

         England and France really are very close together. I only discovered this with my own eyes a couple of weekends ago, when I took a P&O ferry over to Calais from Dover for a little weekend...

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The Marathon Tourist

         I’ve discovered that there’s a type of person who travels around the world to voluntarily take part in 26 miles of extreme sightseeing – to run marathons. They call them marathon tourists,...

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Round the World in a Day at Nausicaa Aquarium in Boulogne-sur-Mer

         In November I took a weekend trip across the English Channel to Boulogne-sur-Mer, where I was wonderfully looked after by Claire from Nausicaa Aquarium, and a number of other lovely people...

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Win a pair of First Class train tickets with First Great Western

        The kind people over at First Great Western have offered me the chance to travel anywhere in the UK, and asked me where I’d most like to go! This is a toughy. There are so many beautiful parts...

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A weekend away in Bath with my Antler suitcase

          At the end of November a few university friends and I escaped London for a country retreat and to celebrate a birthday! Bath was the destination of choice, as it’s the birthday girl’s...

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Postcard of the Week: “Live every day as if it is your birthday”

The past few months have been exceptionally busy and I have slightly let slip my weekly tradition of posting a Postcard of the Week… I finally feel like I might be getting close to getting on top of...

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Moving to Madrid… in under 2 months!

         Back in June 2013 I wrote a blog post about a 6-month international assignment I’ve arranged in Madrid, starting in February and ending in July 2014! This 6-month placement is the final stage...

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Postcard of the Week: The British Museum

           The British managed to colonise a stupidly large portion of the world and, along with exploiting and damaging various civilisations for centuries to come with our geographers’ haphazard...

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Instagramming my travels from July – September 2013

          Back in August I posted a summary of my travels over April, May and June 2013, as seen through the eyes of my Instagram account (you can find me at vstuarttaylor). If you’re on Instagram then...

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Postcard of the Week: Skiing in Switzerland

          It’s that time of year when you find yourself bombarded by status updates and tweets from lucky friends who are off skiing through fresh powder snow. It feels like the entire world minus you...

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Postcard of the Week: Keswick in the Lake District

        This weekend just past I travelled up to the Lake District in the north of England, to Keswick, a town previously unknown to me entirely. Having grown up on the south coast of England, I’ve...

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