The stories of a 21 year-old wanderer invaded by curiosity and a strong desire to travel.
Kiss the busy city life goodbye.
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Coffee and cherry pie.
It's being held in a secret location in central London from 27 August to 17 October.
The Owls Are Not What They Seem
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♫ I got my swim trunks, and my flippie floppies.♫
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Are you fueled by pressed juice or espresso?
It has the fastest internet in the world!
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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Brent BennettMaybe take a left? I think?
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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Sara RubinWhen the Albert Dock and Cavern just won’t cut it.
This rooftop eatery and bar offers the best view of the iconic Liver Buildings. Comfy seating areas and floor-strewn blankets make this a unique place to soak up the city view in the most chilled-out, unique of settings.
Starting and finishing points are optional, but you've got anywhere between Crossens (Southport) to Crosby Marine Park to explore.
Checking out Antony Gormley's Another Place – 100 cast-iron, life-size statues spread across three kilometres of Crosby beach – before strolling along to Formby beach is highly recommended.
Sure you can pick up a Krispy Kreme from Tesco, but if you're after a different kind of tasty dessert to munch, there's none better than this. It ain't cheap, mind, but it's way more memorable than a glazed doughnut.
Don't knock it until you've tried it. Whether you're out with mates, on a date, or simply want to do something different, Formby is home to a tranquil, picturesque woodland reserve where the rare red squirrel resides, and is just a few minutes from the beach.
Great for days out, hiking through and generally exploring the great outdoors.
Why are you incapable of choosing a name for bread rolls?
We thought we were bad enough with the whole Glasgow vs Edinburgh thing, but you guys take it to a whole new level.
It's a fox, not a lion.
Really? Didn't anybody realise?
Eats in the North.
Despite being open less than a year, Picture House Social has already earned the crown of best pizza in Sheffield. Perfectly crisp bases and innovative toppings are aided by the fact their San Marzano tomatoes and 00 flour are imported directly from Italy, whilst their toppings are seasonal and sourced locally.
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After an upsizing of premises after the popularity of their original bakery, Forge Bakehouse have recently opened a café within their new location. Despite its infancy it's already become a favourite breakfast spot because of such dishes as their Huevos Rancheros baked eggs and french toast. Also, any bread they don't sell from their bakery goes to feed the pigs at the local city farm. How ace is that?
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The Twisted Burger Co. is served at both The Harley (until 4am!) and The Riverside, specialising in slightly bonkers, and rather massive, burgers as well as messy, delicious fries, shakes and sides. Their menu is music-themed and ever changing.
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Aside from making some seriously delicious coffee in their comfy surroundings with a weekly guest blend from the UK's best roasters, Steam Yard also offer some excellent food too. Their lunch menu features salt beef bagels, pastrami sandwiches and a gooey three cheese toastie with chutney but their donuts (provided by Depot Bakery) and fronuts (ice-cream filled donuts) are some of the best in the city.
*Books next trip immediately*
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A recent study from the Academy of Management Journal found that people who worked overseas were more imaginative and inspired than those who stayed in the U.S. Why? It's all about cultural immersion.
"People who integrate a new culture into their identities are more creative in the long run," William Maddux, Ph.D., the study's lead author, tells BuzzFeed Life.
His logic: Doing as the locals do for an extended period of time opens up your mind, forcing you to think in different ways and bounce around between different ideas. It's a concept scientists very fancily refer to as "cognitive flexibility." And the more ~cognitively flexible~ you are, the more creative you will be.
Granite City? More like ban it city.
Aberdeen harbour at sunset.
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Fishing cottages in Fittie / Footdee.
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Aberdeen University New Library.
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Raised or live north of the Liffey? You’ll get it.
Rent and house prices are generally cheaper on the northside. Who needs D4 when you've got D3?
It's smaller, more quaint, prettier, and has better seafood.
Along the Red Luas line, after it crosses the river and dappled in Smithfield and Stoneybatter, there are some gorgeous murals.
The Savoy and Cineworld are the big daddies of Dublin picture houses, and the suburban northside locations are deadly too. And if you haven't been to the Odeon Point Village, give it a whirl.
#nofilter
West Mersea is home to the prettiest beach huts in Essex, and we do take our seaside game pretty seriously. Bonus points if you rent out one of these huts for the day. #liveauthentic
Finchingfield is so gorgeous that it's quite literally been named the most beautiful village in England, as well as a "picture-postcard" village and one of the most photographed. Enough said, right?
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It's totally worth saving yourself for afternoon tea here, not only for the perfect 'gram picture but also because YUM TIPTREE JAM.
Head to this beautiful forest and take a selfie with a tree. And maybe some of your dog too.
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Should you get a black cab or a yellow taxi?
http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Ailbhe MaloneAustralia is the flattest continent on Earth. So pretty dull right?
Well yes. This is sunrise on Mount Feathertop in Victoria's Alpine National Park.
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Shaken, not stirred, by the sea-side.
Boho Brighton at its best, here art students rub shoulders with nine-to-fivers fuelled by the bar staff’s AMA approach to cocktails: ask them for anything: they'll sort it out for you.
More a local gastro-bar than a full-on cocktail spot it's still a fantastic place to grab a decent Tom Collins (or something made with their range of Sussex-sourced local gins) while perched on a stool at the bar.
Lit like a club even at two in the afternoon Merkaba is anything but subtle. If the solid cocktail list doesn’t get you talking then negotiating the Ally McBeal-style unisex toilets certainly will.
OK, so it's part of a chain – but that doesn't stop Hotel Du Vin from being Brighton's swankiest place to sip a brilliantly-made Dirty Martini and rubberneck occasional rock stars at the bar.
“Sleep in their beds, so you may know their dreams.”
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Our food groups include: chocolate, cake, cookies, hazelnuts, and pistachios.
Because why not? If you're feeling up to the challenge, you can buy in bulk here.
They're so good they're sold in packs of six. Get it here.
These are actually biscuits for babies/toddlers, but adults eat them like, "I don't care." Available here.
You can eat it plain or with ice cream. Buy it here.
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♪♫ I fell in love on the seaside♫ ♪
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Lovely Tobermory on the Isle of Mull grew out of an 18th century fishing port. Popular for everything from weddings to wildlife watching, Tobermory may be the isle's largest town, but it's never lost its colourful small town charm. Plan a visit in springtime to see White-tailed eagles, and eat like a local at the award-winning Chip Van.
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Cornwall has no shortage of lovely beach towns, but Looe is definitely a standout entry. The coastal resort town is nested into a lush green slope and offers stunning views of the beach, not to mention Looe is home to the largest fishing fleet in Cornwall, so foodies will love the abundant selection of truly fresh sea food. For a real treat, book a dinner at Squid Ink then take a stroll along the harbour.
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Indigenous tour operators say the doors are wide open for you to experience the world’s oldest living culture.
The campaign is designed to encourage tourists to come and see Australia through the eyes of the traditional owners.
Filmed with several Aboriginal tour operators around the country, Aboriginal Australia: Our Country Is Waiting For You, is a short film co-directed by award winning Aboriginal filmmaker Warwick Thornton. Thornton says tourism is the key to unlocking independent economic development ambitions in the Indigenous community.
"I learned so much about us amazing mob making this film. When I am around the world I can pull this short film out and say this is what black Australia has to offer and it's premium. It's the best you can get."
"You can't compete against 40,000 years of connection to land, culture and story and dance; no one has knowledge like our mob and that's what tourists want."
The cinematic campaign features the diversity of different Aboriginal groups from the ruby red Kimberley coastline to the lush greens of the rainforests in far north Queensland.
Tourism Australia Managing Director, John O'Sullivan, says they're just giving tourists what that've been asking for.
"Australia's Indigenous experiences are a unique and important part of our tourism offering. Currently, 14 per cent of our international visitors participate in an Aboriginal cultural experience during their trip, helping to inject $6.4 billion annually into our visitor economy."
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Neville Poelina runs Uptuyu Aboriginal Adventures in the Kimberley in Western Australia. Poelina tells visitors to his country how the mighty Fitzroy River was created.
"My river used to be a pool at the first sunrise; this was during our creation time. In the creation time there was only a pool and my ancestral father walked along as a night heron bird and come across this pool and drugged it so that all of his family could eat from this pool."
"They made lots of noise around this pool and the snake came up to the surface to see who was making all that noise. My ancestral father said quick to his sons, quick throw me a spear, and he speared the snake as it was coming out of the water and it reared out of the water and took off up stream. And that's how the Fitzroy river formed."
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Sonya Jeffrey runs Ingan tours in Tully, far north Queensland. She says the coastline and lush rainforest that bookends her country were created by a mythical creature that united the tribes in the area.
"Half-man, half-eel his name was Jirrigutta so he travelled all the way up from Palm Island all the way up to the tableland to Barren Falls in search of something and along the way he created the mountains, the rivers the oceans."
"The connection we have with him is eel, which is our totem."
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Give me taterz or give me death.
Potatoes = good.
Frying things = also good.
Frying things in duck fat = perfection.
The Canadian specialty gets a Korean twist at this delicious Surry Hills favourite.
A healthier option that still delivers.
It's constantly voted the best in Sydney for a reason.
Burgers, Balti and Brum.
Winners of the UK's best street food event for the last two years running, DDC is the ultimate in urban dining, bringing the best local traders and attracting top street food vendors from far further into one spot, every Friday.
Try and pick one at which the Original Patty Men are present. Winners of the nation's best street food burger, try their patty served inside a Krispy Kreme donut.
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Commissioned in 1758 by the wealthy and eccentric land-owner John Perrott this tower is rumoured to have inspired a young Brummie, J.R.R. Tolkien, to create the tower of Minas Tirith in the Lord of The Rings.
Keep you eye on Hidden Spaces as they do occasional beer tastings from the top, in conjunction with Brum's aptly named Two Towers Brewery.
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There's a 400m underground connection between what was the Royal Mail sorting office (now the Mailbox shopping destination) and New Street Station.
It's now largely closed off to the public, but Brum's revealers of all things concealed, Hidden Spaces, are running a competition that could get you down there.
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We've got Michelin stars coming out of our ears in Brum, but if you visit just one holder of that finest of foodie gongs before shuffling off this mortal coil, make it Purnell's.
The most playful dishes with emerge from the kitchen with the standout monkfish masala being an immaculate nod to the city’s history of South Asian cuisine.
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Don’t leave the house without your bra stash.
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Because the only thing that makes a concert better is a gorgeous setting.
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