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charlottegrahamspouge
Oct 20, 20162 min read
The absurdity of travel
I left Montevideo in the early morning. The flat sheen of water was pale blue beneath the smog of the city. The bay was peppered with...
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charlottegrahamspouge
Oct 18, 20163 min read
All the good things in Montevideo
From Colonia, I travelled on to the capital Montevideo. I arrived at Tres Cruces terminal as the sun was setting. The buildings were...
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charlottegrahamspouge
Oct 16, 20162 min read
Lost in La Plata: Adventures in Argentina
Sitting in a quiet ice cream parlour on the outskirts of Buenos Aires in the growing dark, with no internet access, imperfect Spanish and...
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charlottegrahamspouge
Oct 15, 20161 min read
Colonial Colonia
My trip into Uruguay began by running across the border to board the ferry just as it pulled up the gangplank. I had been delayed...
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charlottegrahamspouge
Sep 21, 20161 min read
Wild Swimming and a cheese and onion pie
Eskdale is quiet. Even for the Lake district. I’ve been midweek to various parts of the Lakes and never found such wonderfully deserted...
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charlottegrahamspouge
Aug 25, 20165 min read
Amsterdam: a city of contrasts
Amsterdam is an odd mixture of modern and old-fashioned, the antiquated and futurist. There are obvious contrasts of course like that...
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charlottegrahamspouge
Jul 27, 20163 min read
5 types of privilege in Venice
When one first steps into Venice, it seems like a fairy-tale world of its own. It appears glossily delicate as though it has been...
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charlottegrahamspouge
Jul 1, 20161 min read
#pigeonpics
And so, we have reached the end of 3o wild days. I have really enjoyed refocusing my attention on local wildlife and the beauty of the...
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charlottegrahamspouge
Jun 17, 20161 min read
Day 17: sunrise at the Acropolis
I got up early this morning and walked through the deserted streets towards the Acropolis. The night before, a fellow hostel-goer had...
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charlottegrahamspouge
Jun 15, 20161 min read
Day 15
Day 15 was a nightmare of a travel day. Nightmarish because we were due to travel from Rio to Athens but there happened to be a train...
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charlottegrahamspouge
Jun 14, 20161 min read
Day 14
After all our travelling we decided to relax with a wild a meal out. We chose a pizza bar on the side of the road near the beach. It had...
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charlottegrahamspouge
Jun 13, 20161 min read
Day 13, part 2
We spent the day on a little gravelly beach swimming beside the mountains and the Rio-AntiRio bridge. #greece #wildflowers #travel...
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charlottegrahamspouge
Jun 12, 20161 min read
Day 12
Day 11 and 12 were wild travel days. We journeyed by trains to Bari, a city on the east coast of Italy. From the station, we walked down...
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