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Off to an Axis of Evil for a week

How a country manages to be a Vogue top tip and also an Axis Of Evil is something that I will be able to report back on in a week or so. We are off to Syria and I am very very excited.

Crusader castles, roman ruined cities, souks, mosques and Middle Eastern food - all sounds good to me. OK so George Bush isn't a fan, but well you can't have everything!

The world seems to be utterly divided between those folks who tell me how Syria is on their travel wish list and are just as excited as I am by the prospect and those who give me like odd "what on earth are you thinking" kind of look.

Anyway, might be Twittering if the phone/internet works.

See you on 20th.

Un-bling Barbados

I blame Michael Winner and Simon Cowell.

I sort of assumed that all the people who holidayed in Barbados were bling, aging, rich lotharios.

And it's fair to say that there is a large proportion of people that we met who were like that.

But we managed to find a little fishing village where the houses were more like this:

A  vast expanse of empty white sand beach like this, and one little beachfront hotel:

And instead of bling yachts, these were the local boats:

It's a tiny  family-run hotel  called  Little Good Harbour and it is without doubt my new most favourite place in the world . We are already planning a week there in December.

But shhhh, only tell nice people please.

It is truly an utterly perfect place.

Our "mini-moon" and "maxi-moon"

Francois and I  got married back in September and had a "mini-moon" on the Amalfi Coast for a week after the wedding.

Now the proper "maxi-moon" is here!

We're off to India for almost a month.

Depending on internet access I will be blogging, otherwise back in January!
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