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Baltic Bliss: Top Three Destinations Away from the Crowds

8/31/2019

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After travelling from Tallinn to Vilnius, these are my picks for the best destinations to visit in the Baltics.
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Discover the medieval centres of Eastern Europe’s Baltic countries, where stone-block castles and cobblestoned streets mingle with modern conveniences. ​

Do cruise-boat crowds and mid-summer masses taint your holiday plans? Relax and find more locals than tourists in these three destinations.

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Gold Star for Searching for Unique’s Book Cover

8/6/2019

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They say first impressions make a difference in choosing which books to read. ​I am happy to report that Searching for Unique received a gold star for its eBook cover design in the Book Designer’s June 2019 Awards!
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A Traveller's Guide to Unforgettable Places to Stay

8/3/2019

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After travelling to over seventy countries, I can't forget these four amazing accommodations. 

What makes a place great:
Friendly staff can have a massive impact on how well I enjoy a place. Setting and activities available can also elevate locations to a top pick. Lastly, cleanliness is a fundamental quality for me; a lack thereof knocks a hotel out of consideration.
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Nkwichi Lodge - Mozambique
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Wake up to breakfast served on your private beach, hike to a nearby community where you can chat with the village chief and, above all, experience Nkwichi Lodge’s masterful balance of creating a traveller’s retreat while sustainably developing local communities.

Website Link: Nkwichi Lodger

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Khermen Tsav: An Ancient Canyon Deep in the Gobi Desert

7/10/2019

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Mongolia's desert is more than dry sand and endless dunes. This is my adventure in a hidden canyon with stunning colours and a vibrancy all its own.
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I looked across the steppe’s flatlands for some indication of where we were headed. Gravel plains stretched in every direction. Nomadic families would not even set up their gers in this southwestern section of the Gobi desert with its lack of water springs and grass for livestock.
Saxual trees—the only variety able to grow in such a dry climate—struggle. Remnants of branches tangled low to the ground remained, contorted in their final search for a drop of water. Those plants able to endure sprouted tiny green leaves among the otherwise withered skeletons of trees bleached by the sun.

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Say Goodbye to Dull Vacations

6/29/2019

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Has the thrill faded from your latest vacation plan? You may be short on time to sift through a guide book to find what really grabs your interest. Let me help.

Consider adding a getaway adventure, a little nugget to revive your holiday and re-energize your entire trip in the process. Here are three options across three continents:
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Australia - Caving
Scramble through tight squeezes and across knobby rocks inside a cave blanketed in a crystal-like motif.

Where: Margaret River's Ngilgi Cave

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How Humans Erased a Sea

6/8/2019

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Written in dedication to World Oceans Day after visiting this sea-turned-to-desert from its Uzbekistan shores in 2019.
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Thirty years ago, my eyes would have been blinded by the reflection from the Aral Sea’s waters. Today, they stared at sand and saxual bushes that merged into a hazy horizon no matter which direction I turned. Our Landcruiser had been bouncing along a four-wheel-drive track for nearly ninety minutes. We were driving on the seabed, or what remained of it. A rusted-out bus rested upside down and scorched at the side of the road near where we had left the Ustyrt Plateau and entered the Aral Sea’s former seabed. Since then, I had seen little else beyond the occasional gas rig or pipeline marker - the latest business of choice in a fishing region erased of its sea.

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Remote Travel Required to Catch these Festivals

5/25/2019

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These are some of the most unusual festivals from around the world!
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One of the quickest means to gain a sense of a place is to step inside a local celebration. Some of my best memories have come from stumbling upon a quirky festival and letting myself become immersed in the unexpected.

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Four Easy Ways to Reduce Plastic When Travelling

5/21/2019

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Tips for sustainable travel:

​These tips help you to easily reduce your use of plastics, say goodbye to leaky liquids and minimize carry-on liquids for flights.

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Svaneti Piglets

5/15/2019

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Discover Georgia's Svaneti Towers and other hidden wonders in this beautiful region. I wrote this after walking along a narrow street between ancient stone houses in the town of Mestia.

Towers built to resist the enemy rose around me. Not consecutively but scattered across the valley, each attached to a home built from the same worn blocks of stone. Time roughened their edges, rain nibbled their sandy grout and flashbacks of former raids hid between nooks and melted into shadows. Today, yellow flowers painted a tapestry at the foot of certain towers while white-blossomed trees soothed their memories, lifting troubles of past generations lightly in the breeze.

The towers stood for resilience. Resilience of the town’s ancestors and strength of community that still filters through neighbourly life. Koshkebi (“stone towers”) define the Svaneti region of northern Georgia, yet my eyes were transfixed by what lay lower to the ground.

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Interview with Birds of a Feather Press

5/9/2019

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Birds of a Feather Press interviews “travel writers with an independent spirit” in their Author Interview Series and I am happy to be featured in their latest edition!
Not all travel guides are created equal, and I love the approach this week’s travel writer, Nancy O’Hare, has taken with her books. They’re not a dry collection of facts and figures to help travelers explore off-the-beaten path locations. Instead, she weaves the information through travel narratives so readers are transported to the destinations Nancy is excited to share with them.

The first draft of my travel guide was strictly informational, but during the second draft I added travel narratives to make it inspirational too. I think this content balance is the best formula for travel guides, and it’s up to the author how much of each ingredient they include. ~~ Jay Artale of Birds of a Feather Press
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