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Notes from a Travel Writing Course 3: Travel Writing Tips

The nitty gritty, writing the article!

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Notes from a Travel Writing Course 2: How to Get Free Hospitality, Making Travel Pay

More travel writing notes from a forgotten notebook – get your flights paid for, and other complimentary hospitality.

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Notes from a Travel Writing Course 1: Pitching to Publishers

More forgotten notebooks – this time filled with notes from a travel writing course – in case you’re curious!

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Air Travel Antics, and Smirk Worthy Observations

Musical departure gates, baggage claims chaos… Past travel shenanigans are still amusing to look back on, I wonder what new amusements and annoyances will emerge as travel opens up again…..

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Tokyo Tittle-Tattle and an Indian Robin Hood? Tieless in Tokyo and The White Tiger

A couple of book reviews, one about a 10 day galavant around Tokyo, the other about an Indian rags to riches journey.

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From A Hotel Room Window

What have you witnessed from a hotel room window or balcony that has stayed in your thoughts, that you’ve never forgotten, outrageous or not?

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12 Gift Ideas for a Travel Addict: Coffee Machines and Wine Glasses?

Gift Ideas for the travel addict can quickly turn to the predictable and cliche, but with a bit of extra thought, you might just strike it lucky!

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Fancy A Cuppa: Lets Talk Travel Moments

It’s amazing what a little bit of imagination and a few travel memories can do!!

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A Tuk-Tuk for Two by Adam Fletcher, Holidays With Strangers!!

When conversations with strangers lead to catching flights to India with them the same week, racing Tuk-Tuks amidst good old Indian traffic!! Have you or would you ever…?

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Conversations with Strangers: Cakes and Suitcases ✈️

This time we talked packing for flights, bottles of rum, house prices and baking cakes. Conversations with strangers can work more wonders than you’ll ever know!!

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Blogger Recognition Award

A huge thank you to Chocoviv at Chocoviv’s Lifestyle Blog for this nomination!!

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The Last Day of the Holiday: Oh Happy Day, Or a Hard Goodbye?

On the last day of a holiday, are you wishing you could stay a bit longer or raring to get to the airport? I think its probably a sad day for many – but I’m curious to hear whether you agree.

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Liebster Award

Warm hugs and a big thank you to ‘Travel and Share’ for this Liebster Award nomination – very kind of you!!

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Robots Travel and Artificial Intelligence. The Good the Bad and the Ugly!

Robotic airport staff, robotic luggage, and robots that can go on holiday on your behalf!! The evolution of AI is sweeping the travel industry in its wake, especially on the back of Covid 19.

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One Lovely Blog Award

Thank you to blogger Juvie at ‘Paradigm Shifter’ for nominating Cherrylsblog.com for a One Lovely Blog Award, a lovely and much appreciated surprise!

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Armchair Travel with Bruce Parry: Culture Trips

Imagine having to shake the hands of 250 people all waiting for you on a beach, or jumping over a herd of cattle to prove your manhood. Ladies – how about having three husbands at once? Perhaps you’d be up for a nomadic tent-life in freezing cold snow storm territory. These are just a few interesting highlights from the some of the world’s lesser well known tribes and indigenous populations. Curious?

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Hate Going on Holiday? Or is it a Love Hate Relationship?

So what’s your position, do you hate going on holiday, is the agro of planning and packing all too much, or is that all part of the fun? Are you a holiday hater?

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Dear Jamaica

A quick message for Jamaica, just to say hi, and keep in touch!

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Beach bars in Cuba! Forgotten Souvenirs

Of all the things I could have bought in Cuba, I didn’t think a beach bar would end up on the shopping list!! Its interesting to look back at some of those forgotten holiday souvenirs, many of which I treasure all the more now!!

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How to Speak Jamaican!! A Great Book for Newbies to Jamaica

There’s more to Jamaican patois than ‘irie’ and ‘yeah man’. If you want to get a better grip on Jamaican patois, this funny little book gives you some common words and phrases written with a Jamaican dialect and pronunciation.

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Renaissance London Heathrow Airport Hotel: A Quick Look

Heathrow bound? Fancy more than a mere 40 winks before or after your flight? The Renaissance London Heathrow Hotel gets a thumbs up from me. Here’s a quick look!

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Lets Talk About India: Animals, Food, Hustlers, Marriage and more…

Push the guide books aside, here’s my first hand round up of thoughts and observations after a first and very worthwhile trip to India.

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The Pink City, Carpets and Palaces: Snapshots of Jaipur India

Snapshots from the iconic Indian Pink City, loved for it’s royally dressed elephants, pink palaces, chamber of mirrors, and endless shopping bazaars.

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A Monument of Love? The Taj Mahal

Well it’s undisputedly a fantastic work of art, one of the world’s seven wonders and perhaps the selfie capital of India, however….

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India Hotels: A Ranthambore Hotel and a Jaipur Hotel

The other two Indian hotels were just as lovely, delicious food, a good nights sleep and welcoming staff.

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On Safari in India: Stalking Tigers in Ranthambore

There’s far less exciting things you could do than stalk tigers on a jeep safari through India’s Ranthambore national park, taking in an array of wildlife and beautiful scenery while you’re at it. Just saying!!

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Out and About in Delhi, India

I felt an almost unbelievable sense of being in an entirely new world, a world with ‘ways’ that are not to be labelled or ridiculed, but simply accepted as ‘the way’ for where we were – a different way to what I was used to seeing or experiencing.

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Indian Hotels: A Delhi Hotel and an Agra Hotel

A quick glance at a couple of Indian Hotels, The Vivanta by Taj Dwarka in Delhi and The Clarks Shiraz Hotel in Agra, near the Taj Mahal.

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I Get Around Round …..🎶 Traffic in India

Traffic in India is not for the faint hearted – its a bikers paradise, a barrage of beeps, the rush hour seems ceaseless, and chaos might just be the new calm.

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All Things Bright and Beautiful: India Loves Colour

Are you curious about India? India and colour go hand in hand, vibrant and flamboyant, cheerfully extrovert. Dull and dismal doesn’t seem to feature. The people, buildings, flowers, the food. When the sun’s out and everything twinkles and gleams, the colours are dazzling and India will certainly give your camera a run for its money!!

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A Solo Trip to India!!!! Leaving my Comfort Zone

Taking a solo trip to India was a welcome escape from the UK’s winter weather and long month of February (even though it’s technically the shortest month, lol). India had been sky high on my bucket list for a very long time and I can honestly say it was everything I’d hoped for and more […]

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Let’s Talk About Malta! 23 Things Worthy of Note

Before heading off on your Malta holiday, here’s a few observations, tips and bits of info that might interest you or prove useful to know if you’re curious about Malta, since the guide books don’t tell you everything!!

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A Storm Brewing and the Great Flood in Malta

There was a storm brewing in Malta, cooking itself up since the night before, growling with thunder, pouting grey mist and bringing back Sliema’s floods.

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Marsaxlokk Sunday Market and the Secret Beach!!

Malta’s biggest fishing village sports its most colourful boats, and turns into a mega market every Sunday, with a secret beach tucked away around it’s little corner!!

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Shopping in Malta: Shopperholics Take Note

Shopperholics listen up! Sliema has the giant shopping mall, Valletta’s brand names will pass some time and Marsaxlokk is the mother of all Maltese markets.

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A Valletta vs Sliema Standoff, Across the Harbour

Sliema and Valletta, the siblings that couldn’t be more different, staring each other out across the harbour. Valletta could well be the Vatican’s little brother, while Sliema seems more like the Manhattan of Malta.

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Food in Malta: Forget the Diet

Interesting pies, unusual doughnuts, pastries, rabbits and octopus, with plenty of Turkish kebabs thrown in for good measure. Welcome to Malta!!

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Valletta and St John’s Cathedral: Icons of Malta

A Valletta show that leaves you staggering out of the cinema, a church with enough gold to go head to head with Buckingham Palace (no doubt) and those iconic streets of Valletta that seem to come alive at night – interested? Then read on.

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Travel Comedy Giveaway: Win a tripod for your travel photography!!

Want to win a tripod to improve your travel photography? Share your funniest travel moments to enter the prize draw and you could be a winner!!

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First Time in Morocco: 10 tips to note

If you’re off to Morocco for the first time you might want to note a few things, including the weather, cats, haggling and ‘Morocco belly’

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A Quiet Night in Tobago: Star Gazing Before Bedtime

On a quiet night in Tobago, I sit out on the upstairs veranda and look heavenwards into the ink black abyss above. The sky offers a sparkly shelter, with stars shimmering like jewels in the light, it’s the kind of sky that hypnotises, and locks you in a ‘starry eyed’ trance. I see a shooting […]

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The most Popular Beach in Tobago: Pigeon Point

Pigeon point is the beach that seems to gets all the attention on the Caribbean island of Tobago.

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Covent Garden’s Got Talent: A Street Performer Snapshot

Covent Garden and street performers go hand in hand – they always have and probably always will. Covent Garden sits in the heart of London’s theatre district, and just a stones’s throw from the Royal Opera House. Performance and theatrics float through the air, and have settled into Covent Garden Square.

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Breakfast with a stranger

An early start That morning, I had breakfast with a stranger, not something that tends to happen often; maybe it happened because I was in the ‘friendlier north’ of the UK, where speaking to a stranger isn’t seen as being quite so weird. “Sorry, I nearly sat in your seat” she said. We were both […]

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Thank you

This month marks the fourth birthday of Cherryl’s Blog, and I thought it was about time I said a heartfelt thank you to all of you who have taken the time to read any of my posts, leave comments, give me a like or even done me the huge honour of following the blog 🙏😊 […]

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A Bahamas Holiday: 12 Reasons why It’s not Just A Pretty Beach!!

The Bahamas has a lot more to it than just beaches – including pineapple festivals, pirates, wine cellars, and snow.

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Seas, Oceans, Waves

Calm, relaxed and at peace, that’s how I feel when I’m near the sea, hearing the waves, feasting on an infinite ocean view, my mind is clearer and thoughts come to me more easily. The sea seems charged with emotion, sometimes it’s still, unassuming and beckoning, then within hours, minutes even, it develops an almighty […]

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Question Time: Overrated Travel Experience?

So where in the world have you been that turned out to be completely overrated? Share your views and help us avoid wasting our time – maybe!

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Dear Morocco

Farewell Morocco, I’ll always have fond memories from our time together, from the Sahara to the souks, High Atlas Mountains, snake charmers, belly dancers and generous tagine!

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22 Rumours about your Morocco Holiday: Setting the Record Straight!

What you need to know about Morocco before your first trip – lets examine the hype. I found most of these 22 rumours to be true!!

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Out And About Morocco #3: Food, Orange Trees, a Mosque and a Medina!

More Moroccan snapshots to inspire your next visit to Morocco; it’s such an interesting country, with something interesting to see or experience wherever you go.

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Ait Benhaddou: The fortified city and Hollywood of Morocco

Loved by movie makers and tourists alike; take a walk through the narrow clay community. Ait Benhaddou is home to a small number of Moroccan families and was used as the setting for a long list of big screen films.

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Berber Life and the High Atlas Mountains: tea, sheep, scary roads and fossil sellers

A complete contrast from Marrakech and its crazy souks, the High Atlas Mountains take you a world away with breath taking views and a community of berber families living a different way of life.

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Maison Tiskiwin: Musée Bert Flint Museum, Morocco

If you’re visiting Marrakech, curious about African history and berber life with a soft spot for cosy museums crammed with lots of interesting things, you’re going to really like Maison Tiskiwin.