I’d been living in the Middle East for over two months and I’d yet to see a camel. I’d long since abandoned any hopes of stumbling upon magic lamps, flying carpets, caves of wonder or any other Disney-inspired stereotypes of the Persian Gulf. But I point blank refused to leave my five day trip to Dubai without coming face to face with a camel. So I headed out on a Dubai desert safari adventure.
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For people who’ve never dabbled in the world of ‘green living’ before, the whole thing can seem daunting and sometimes even a little bizarre. But fear not – environmentally conscious living is not reserved for bare-foot hippies or self-sufficient recluses who live in the woods. There are plenty of small and easy changes you can make in your day to day life that are easy ways to save the planet.
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I’ve made a lot of travel blunders over the years, ranging from first-time foolishness to the downright dangerous. I got myself locked in a wine cellar in Venice, picked up pneumonia in South Africa and almost died on a boat trip in Sri Lanka. But, while I’ve had my fair share of transcontinental brushes with death, my biggest travel regret is buying into animal tourism without even realising what kind of harm I was inflicting.
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I used to be the queen of compulsive shopping. I was capable of doing some pretty major damage on my credit card on the average Saturday afternoon. But then everything changed. I learned to shop less. And you know what? It really wasn’t that difficult.
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Amazingly, I’ve been living in Kuwait for nine months already and now it’s almost time for me to pack up and move on. I’m happy (and massively relieved) to say that I finally know where I’m moving on to. After a lot of soul searching and a good deal of lying awake at night staring at the ceiling, I’ve decided that I’m moving to Bahrain.
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