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Jan 15, 2025 | 
thetimes.com | Helen Ochyra
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Dec 19, 2024 | 
ttgmedia.com | Helen Ochyra
The world’s first – and largest – koala sanctuary is home to more than 100 koalas. It’s a beautiful bush setting, the enclosures just chest-high to allow an unobstructed view. Visitors can meet a koala up close as well as hand-feed the dozens of kangaroos who live here. Tickets from £20; lonepinekoalasanctuary.comThe vision of Steve Irwin lives on at this conservation-focused zoo, where the wildlife includes not only numerous crocs, but also elephants, tigers, cheetahs and rhinos.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | Helen Ochyra
I’m not a fan of “immersive experiences”. I cringe at the thought of interacting with someone pretending to be a loveable wizard or cheeky rogue and pale at the sight of an actor approaching me to do their bit. And yet here I am, talking to a garden gnome. Because this isn’t any old immersive experience — this is Bluey’s house, and I have left every inhibition at the front door. And, so it would seem, has my three-year-old, Georgia.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | Helen Ochyra
Am I turning into my mother? I said I’d never be here, and yet I find myself in a rain-dashed Exmoor car park grappling with waterproofs and insisting to my sceptical four-year-old daughter, Scarlett, that it’s going to stop raining any minute. I used to be in Scarlett’s position. My mother, Susan, loved Exmoor National Park in Somerset and Devon and many a childhood holiday was spent clad in not-quite-waterproof-enough jackets, sodden sleeves stuck to folded arms as I swore I’d never return.
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
msn.com | Helen Ochyra
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
msn.com | Helen Ochyra
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
msn.com | Helen Ochyra
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | Helen Ochyra
Island folklore says Queen Victoria visited the Albion. Plausible? This West Wight hotel has certainly been standing long enough (parts of it date back to the early 18th century). True or false, it’s unlikely she’d recognise the old place now: an extensive, just-completed revamp has pulled the building firmly into the 21st century.
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Jul 13, 2024 | 
businesstoday.com.my | Helen Ochyra
Whatever you’re craving, you’ll eat well in Barcelona. The Spanish city knows what the good life is all about, with lunches lingering well into the afternoon and dinner recommendations enthusiastically offered and received. Barcelona’s restaurants naturally excel at fresh, Catalan cuisine, but you’ll also find international dishes, from high-quality burgers to freshly rolled sushi.
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Jul 12, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | Helen Ochyra
Europe is an exceptional place for a golf holiday, with top-notch championship courses to test your swing in every corner of the continent and a largely temperate climate that makes for a lengthy playing season. You’ll find everything from long-standing, prestigious names that have hosted numerous tour events to new, professionally designed courses, not to mention a formidable line-up of luxury golf hotels.
