Baby it’s better down where it’s wetter..

An idyllic paradise. Yes, being on the beaches of Zanzibar is like walking in the best pictures you have seen of them. They are everything you've imagined they would be, even better. Just like the postcards, but in real life, they are even more breathtakingly beautiful. Every morning I walked down the garden path and saw he beach …

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Stonetown – spices, cycling, sunsets & smiles!

After a sunny breakfast of bread, fruit and coffee at the hotel's rooftop restaurant I met my guide, Suleman, from Bike Zanzibar. We headed off on our bikes through Stone Town’s narrow alleyways to catch a Dula (local bus). We chucked our bikes on top and about 30 minutes later were dropped off 1.5k away …

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Slinking around StoneTown, ZANZIBAR!

Zanzibar. Just the name itself sounds like a fantastically lush, exotic, fantasy island. Too exotic for a mere London office worker like me to visit. Too remote. Too expensive. Still, when I decided to go on a diving holiday back in October 2016, I thought there was no harm in looking at the flights. I was pretty shocked …

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