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Built to impress

The bus from hell.

I can say three positive things about travelling for 18 hours on a bus. First, it’s just £125 for a return ticket. Second, it leaves central London at 6pm. And third, you can check in just 30 minutes before departure…

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Built to impress

Board games.

I picked the skateboard up and turned it over lovingly in my hands. I remembered my first board as a kid, a thin plastic affair with narrow trucks and rock-hard wheels. This was different, it was much wider with softer wheels. More stable…

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Built to impress

Five star snow.

Buy three stars get two stars free! Of course, the good people of Canada are too modest to shout this rhetoric from the mountaintops, but it’s true: this season, for what some three star holidays are charging in Europe you can fly to Canada, ski on fabulous snow and bask in five star luxury…

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Built to impress

This charming man.

Saturday evening in Jolo, West Virginia, in the heart of the Appalachians, and the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ was filling up. Children scampered in the aisles as their elders exchanged greetings…

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