Why I love airport departure lounges
I was sitting in the departure lounge at Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport’s Terminal E, Gate 7, waiting to board my flight home to London…
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Some thoughts on TBU Innsbruck
Last weekend I was in Innsbruck, Austria where I attended the summer Travel Bloggers Unite conference. This is not intended to be a review of the conference or a full run-down of events, just a collection of observations and thoughts I had along the way.
Continue ReadingA room of one's own: Riad Amiris, Marrakech
Unless you’re a particularly decisive person, it can take ages to find the right riad for a long weekend in Marrakech…
Continue ReadingInnsbruck: Zaha Hadid's curvy white funicular railway
Number one on my list of things to see in Innsbruck: Zaha Hadid’s Hungerburgbahn funicular railway stations. There are four in total, each with a spectacularly amorphous milky white canopy set against the jagged backdrop of the Nordkette mountain range…
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Why I love airport departure lounges
I was sitting in the departure lounge at Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport's Terminal E, Gate 7, waiting to board my flight home to London...
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Innsbruck: Zaha Hadid's curvy white funicular railway
Number one on my list of things to see in Innsbruck: Zaha Hadid's Hungerburgbahn funicular railway stations. There are four in total, each with a spectacularly amorphous milky white canopy set against the jagged backdrop of the Nordkette mountain range...
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Embarrassing travel moments #1: Kyoto, Japan
If you're basically a moron, consuming copious amounts of literature on Japanese culture and etiquette is not going to help...
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Le Grand Bleu: Diving for Dummies
My skills as a scuba-diver are roughly equal to my skills as an underwater photographer [see above]. I knew I was going to be beyond appalling at this particular aquatic pursuit, and I was right.
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A room of one's own: Riad Amiris, Marrakech
Unless you're a particularly decisive person, it can take ages to find the right riad for a long weekend in Marrakech...
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A room of one's own: Sea Spirit House, Yachats, Oregon Coast
North of the Oregon Dunes, just outside the hip little coastal village of Yachats, is a guesthouse that turned out to be one of those fortuitous discoveries you make every once in a while...
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About Me
I'm Maxine Sheppard, a freelance travel writer and editor based in the UK, currently working for Virgin Atlantic and on other projects - see my About page for more details. Untraveller is my personal travel blog - just a simple space for musing about stuff and sharing places and spaces worth talking about.
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