Thursday, October 6th, 2011
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I remember Jersey as the first place I tasted a cherry. About five years old, I picked it off a tree and ate it, revelling not only in its unique perfume and texture but also in the fact that there were endless sweet gems for the picking. What felt like an ordinary family holiday had, [...]
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Tags: accommodation Jersey, cycling Jersey, eco Jersey, family Jersey, Green Lanes Jersey, green places to stay Jersey, Jersey, responsible tourism Jersey, yurts Jersey
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Friday, September 23rd, 2011
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You know that feeling when you first open a box of Green and Black’s chocolates? Butterscotch is better than…Ok, let’s not go there. Well, when I first went on Canopy and Stars website, it had the same impact really. Each web page unwrapped a delicious, quirky place to stay,and the choice almost overwhelming. Which is [...]
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Tags: canopy and stars, ecotourism, glamping, green travel, green travel england, yurts
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Thursday, September 22nd, 2011
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I never expected to come back from Lanzarote with a yearning to create. Indeed, I can’t think of any other occasion when my expectations of a place have been so totally reversed, thanks in the main, to the place we stayed. Lanzarote Retreats is an eco hideaway, almost concealed from view from the beach of [...]
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Tags: eco Canaries, eco Canary Islands, eco Lanzarote, eco yurts, green Canaries, green Canary Islands, green family holidays, green Lanzarote, hiking Canary Islands, La Graciosa, Lanzarote, Lanzarote Retreats, yurt holidays Canary Islands
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Friday, July 29th, 2011
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I look down at my hands pushing through the turquoise water and have a weird realisation. They are exactly the same shape as my father’s. I guess we rarely watch our hands in action, but here I am, twenty kilometres off Croatia’s coast, striding through the waves, and I have this bizarre hand moment. I [...]
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Tags: croatia, ethical travel. ecotourism, green travel, green travel croatia, sustainable tourism, swimming holiday, swimtrek
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Thursday, July 28th, 2011
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One of London’s greatest icons is the Underground Map. Designed in 1931 by Harry Beck, his mass of multicoloured lines will lead you horizontally, vertically or diagonally from one end of this sprawling city to the other. But it isn’t really the bowels of the city that appeal to me for a family visit. If [...]
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Tags: Borough Market, cycling in London, eco London, family london, green London, London, Thames Clipper, The Globe Theatre, The Thames
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Wednesday, July 13th, 2011
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“Don’t forget to pack your umbrella!” a French friend laughed, somewhat smugly, down the phone from his apartment on the Cote d’Azur, when I told him I was going on a walking holiday along the coast of Brittany. But he had got to me, as I kept a fervent eye on five day forecasts and, [...]
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Tags: Brittany, ecotourism France, inntravel, Roscoff walking, walking France, walking holiday
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Tuesday, June 28th, 2011
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London is hot. London is cool. It is hard to distinguish between these statements as both are often relevant. Except in summer that is, when temperatures soar and there is little reprieve from the city heat. Even after a miserable start to summer, the minute the clouds pass, the sun seems intent on making up [...]
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Tags: cycle London, eco London, family london, green London, hire a bike London, lidos, lidos london, outdoor london, summer london, swim london
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Tuesday, June 28th, 2011
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London has finally caught up with neigbouring capital cities, Paris and Dublin, and launched its own bike hire scheme, organised by Transport for London (locally known as TFL). There are four hundred docking stations around the city centre, housing six thousand bikes, so this is a fairly ambitious attempt to keep up with the Joneses. [...]
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Tags: bike hire london, boris bike, cycle London, green London
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Thursday, June 16th, 2011
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Greeny holiday makers are grinning more than non-greenies, a recent holiday survey suggested. I am not sure what I’m meant to do with that information, except feel slightly smug about the fact that I might be contributing just a little to this holiday happiness factor. It’s all a load of nonsense of course, because a [...]
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Tags: cove park, ethical travel, free spirit spheres, kolarbyn, le perche. treehouse France, mountain bothy association, responsible travel, under the thatch
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