Inspiring Travel Writing from Claire Gervat: Page 2 of 2
Articles by Claire Gervat: Page 2 of 2
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A tale of two cities
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Claire Gervat
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Estonia
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Tallinn Region
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Tallinn
Eight o’clock in the morning, and things were hotting up in the Finlandia Dancing Bar. Although the ferry had barely nudged its way out of its Helsinki terminal for the short crossing to Tallinn in Estonia, the more determined drinkers were already...
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Having fun on the Bayou
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Claire Gervat
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United States
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Louisiana
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New Orleans
For weeks, I'd been telling anyone who'd listen that I was heading to south Louisiana to eat my way through a Carpenters' hit. So it seemed only right that when my guide Ron "Black" Guidry moored up the boat by the side of the bayou and pulled out...
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A hearty welcome in Cappadocia
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Claire Gervat
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Turkey
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Cappadocia
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Urgup
There’s a dentist in Urgup. I happened to find out this essential information because the old woman next to me on the bus to Ortahisar had just been there to have two teeth pulled out, a fact she demonstrated with a mime graphic enough to make me...
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Safari for Beginners
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Claire Gervat
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Botswana
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Moremi and Okavango Delta
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Okavango
Nathan had one hand on the steering wheel, leaving his other arm free to hang out of the window. The back seat was piled high with groceries. An unremarkable scene, you might think, from any British high street. But this was a tiny airport in...
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Feed Your Senses
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Claire Gervat
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Ireland
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Southwest (Kerry & Cork)
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Kinsale
The row of cakes was too mouth-watering to resist. That fantastic-looking pear and almond tart at the end, for instance, would go perfectly with the fluffy cappuccinos that had just been delivered to our table. We’d certainly earned a treat after...
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France Without The Channel
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Claire Gervat
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United Kingdom
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East Anglia
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Lavenham
Everyone knows you can’t be in two places at once. Yet, as I sleepily stretched out to the corners of the four-poster bed, I wondered if I’d achieved the impossible. Outside the window was a postcard-perfect English village, but the voices drifting...
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This Could Be Magic
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Claire Gervat
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Czech Republic
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Prague Region
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Prague
Prague was laid out invitingly below us: a sea of red-tiled roofs punctuated by weird black spires and green domes stretching as far as the eye could see. It was enough to take your breath away -- if we’d had any left after the steep, slow climb up...
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St Vincent and the Grenadines
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Claire Gervat
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St Vincent & Grenadines
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Mustique Region
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Mustique
Inconvenience can be a marvellous thing. Many’s the beauty spot that’s been spared the worst excesses of mass tourism by the sheer difficulty of getting there. This doesn’t have to be of the ‘five hours in a dugout canoe, followed by a nine-hour...
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Florida Keys
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Claire Gervat
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United States
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Florida
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Florida Keys
The Florida Keys have long been regarded as somewhere rather different, not quite like the rest of America. Not that there’s anything surprising in that; after all, they’re not even part of the mainland. The 100-mile-long string of islands trails...
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Through the Rabbit Hole
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Claire Gervat
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United Kingdom
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Thames Valley
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Oxford
As the boat glided along, the bustle of the real world seemed far away. Around us was a scene of timeless beauty; a line of feathery willows to one side and on the other a vast and half-wild meadow that had been grazed for thousands of years. Cows...
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