Travel, at its best, can stimulate the senses like nothing else; it fills you with wonder and carves itself into your memory. Your recollections never dim, they just get embellished and improved with every retelling. Let me tell you about the awesome spectacle of the clouds clearing on the peak of Machu Picchu after...
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Before Number Two arrived, it had never crossed my mind that the gorgeous, adorable, butter-wouldn’t-melt-in-her-mouth bundle of joy that is Number One could ever be… violent. People – quite a few people, in fact – said to me, “Are you worried about how your daughter will get on with the baby?” No, I wasn’t....
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I don’t like choice. Choice is bad. I dislike menus with more than about three things on them; my eyes glaze over as I scan them. I just pick the first thing I see when the waiter arrives to avoid having to… choose. I stand stupefied in the supermarket aisle, staring at the 700...
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A good friend of mine recently told me the happy news that he and his partner are expecting their first baby. As you can imagine, he is full of excited-yet-anxious questions. After all, with a four-month-old boy and a two-and-a-half year-old girl, I’m an expert, right? The last time I checked, I was still...
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