An unabashed tourist and her family explore the world one holiday at a time.
Cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon, coffee… These are all spices you’ll find in the kitchen cupboard, but do you know where they come from or what they taste like before they’re packaged and branded and sold in the supermarket? Neither did I, which is why I found the spice tour we took around a plantation in Zanzibar […]
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Pemba, Zanzibar I’ve jumped off the wooden dhow and am fighting to stay afloat in the rough waters of the Indian Ocean just off the coast of Pemba, Zanzibar’s main island. It’s my 30th birthday and the skipper had promised me I would be able to swim with dolphins. I look around, there are two […]
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In June this year, I turned 30. I had vowed I would pass this milestone sitting on a tropical beach somewhere, basking in the sun and drinking something that had a little umbrella in it. So, a week before D-day, we whisked off to the island of Zanzibar, just off the coast of Tanzania. We […]
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