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101 Things to do in Bournemouth – Live @ The Square
For the past few years, Summer Live has taken place each summer in Bournemouth Square, offering a fun bar with plenty of insta-worthy selfie props, food, shopping and a daily range of free entertainment for adults and children. Since 2024, Live @ The Square has been contracted in their place. The venue, branding itself as…
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Christchurch in 2 Days
Christchurch, the largest city on New Zealand’s South Island, is located roughly half way down the island’s east coast and is the ideal place to start/finish a tour of the island. Much of today’s city is shaped by the devastating earthquake in 2011, which killed 185 people and severely damaged thousands of buildings. We spent…
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Auckland in 2 Days
For us, like many of the visitors we encountered on our trip to New Zealand, Auckland was the starting point of an island or country long adventure. We flew into Auckland and spent two days exploring, before setting off on our 3 week long tour covering the length of the country. Our first day in…
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101 Things to do in Bournemouth – Boscombe
The suburb of Boscombe, a mile to the east of its more illustrious neighbour Bournemouth, doesn’t always get a good press – in the past it’s been voted one of the ten worst places to live in Britain. Most visitors head straight for the beach and don’t get to see what else Boscombe has to…
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101 Things to do in Bournemouth – Beautiful World Festival
Beautiful World Festival (formerly World of Love Festival) is an annual cultural festival celebrating diversity and inclusion, which, in 2024, celebrated its 5th birthday. The festival features music, dance, food and other activities from a range of different countries. How to get to Beautiful World Festival The festival takes place at King’s Park, Boscombe, which…
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101 Things to do in Bournemouth – O2 Academy Bournemouth
The O2 Academy Bournemouth is actually in the suburb of Boscombe. This Grade II listed Victorian venue has been entertaining people since 1895. A bit like a cat, it seems to have had nine lives, having served as a theatre, circus, music hall, disco and now mainly as a live music venue. How to get…
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Montenegro 2 Day Road Trip (Budva and Kotor)
The tiny country of Montenegro may be small, with a total population of just 623,000, but it boasts some impressive coastline. It is one of the few countries we have visited without bothering to explore the capital (Podgorica). Instead, we spent 2 days driving along the Montenegrin coast, entering from Albania to the southeast and…
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Kotor in 1 Day
We spent a day wandering around the quaint old town of Kotor in Montenegro during our Balkan Road Trip. The walled city sits nestled between the stunning Bay of Kotor and Mount Lovćen. Inside the formidable city walls are a labyrinth of old buildings squeezed into narrow cobbled streets, all lined with hundreds of cats…
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Budva in 1 Day
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Mexico City in 4 Days
We spent four days in Mexico City during our trip to Mexico; three days exploring the city itself and a fourth day on a trip to the ancient pyramids of Teotihuacán, some 30 miles away. Note that many of the city’s attractions are closed on Mondays. From my itinerary, Day 2 and Day 4 will…
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