We may not be dusting off our passports yet, but we can dream can’t we and get excited about things that are on the horizon in travel for 2021? So I thought I’d give you a little bit of inspiration about things that are new this year.
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The wild side of Ireland
It’s certainly not a hop, skip and a jump to get there. In fact it took a flight to Dublin, a two and a half hour drive across Ireland to a small airstrip outside of Galway and an eight minute flight in a tiny plane. But the absolute joy of Inis Meáin is in its remoteness. You really can’t go any further west in Europe. Next stop America.
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A New Found Paradise on the Equator
When people asked me where I was going on my holidays this year and I responded with São Tomé and Príncipe, they looked at my blankly. No-one seemed to know where or what it was. And it was exactly for that reason Julian and I decided to visit. There’s something quite exciting about travelling to a place a little off the radar. After all, if people haven’t heard of it, then it’s unlikely there will be many tourists.
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Finding my groove in the Grenadines
Wanting to test the room service protocol I hoisted a yellow flag. Twenty minutes later a mini moke arrived and there was my perfectly made gin and tonic, just in time for me to enjoy the sun setting over the Caribbean from my little piece of paradise. A place I had wanted to visit ever since Judith Chalmers asked “Wish you were here?” I answered “yes” and 35 years later I was!
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