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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Marie Kondo’s book, ‘The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up,’ is the essential guide to decluttering and taking back control of your home. Trust me when I say that I’ve tried a lot of decluttering methods over the years, but the Konmari method is different. It’s life-changing! I swear, I’m not even being dramatic here.
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I’ll admit it – I’ve been mentally planning my trip to Southeast Asia ever since I read ‘Eat. Pray. Love.’ Reading that book made me long to wander the beaches of Bali, meditate in an ashram in India and just generally live out my wildest hippie dreams. Actually, I think that’s when my obsession with finding inner peace really started to go into overdrive.
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