The Great Barrier Reef
Australia’s coral reefs are national icons, and the Great Barrier Reef is one of the world’s most famous scuba diving destinations, attracting around two million visitors each year.
It’s the world’s largest living organism, is a World Heritage-listed preservation area, and is widely considered to be one of the greatest natural wonders of [...]

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The Stockholm archipelago is full of islands dotting the Baltic Sea.  Many of which offer a wonderful day trip away from the city center.  Some allow you to escape completely into nature.  Others throw you into a flock of tourists enjoying the Swedish summer.  Vaxholm is that island.

A beautiful island full of classic Swedish summer [...]

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I stayed at the Parc Hotel during the Cardiff stop of the Summer 09 UK Blogging Tour. It’s a recenly renovated grand Victorian building, right in the middle of the city centre, literally a stone’s throw from M&S. I wasn’t disturbed at all by external noise during the night. It’s [...]

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Restaurant Review:
I had planned to walk around to find a restaurant for lunch during the Belfast leg of the Summer 09 UK Blogging Tour. However it started raining and I was in the Victoria Square shopping centre where I’d noticed several restaurants so decided just to eat at one of them. I selected the [...]

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I loved the water feature, which I’d probably call a pavement fountain, at Custom House Square in Belfast. The water feature was just around the corner from the Malmaison Hotel where I was staying during the Belfast leg of the Summer 09 UK Blogging Tour.
The 84 water jets are powered by the River [...]

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