Ah, Paris!  The city of Love, good food, wine and of course, Disneyland!  It was the later of these that drew me to the city last month but we had enough time when we arrived from the Eurostar to take in some of the sights before we headed to the land of the mouse!  I’ve […]

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When I first booked my £1 return car trip on our return ferry to France we had no clue where we were actually going to go.  With a deal that good sometimes you have to trust yourself to work out the details later! One place we entertained but dismissed was Dunkirk, which we decided against […]

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2017 was the year of travel for me, I explored the UK and Europe in a way I never had before and left pieces of my heart in places all around the world.  If you’ve read my rravel roundup from the first half of the year you’ll have read that I’d already visited 14 places […]

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I know the title of this post seems a little clickbait-y but I swear it’s 100% true, I still can’t really believe it myself! I did actually get a return trip to France for just 50p! I have a bit of a reputation these days for sniffing out bargain travel deals, it’s served me well […]

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