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aka Mari Nicholson from Isle of Wight, UK. Wizzley author for 11 years. 95%

I've been writing since I first mastered making letters into words but didn't start working professionally as a writer until about 20 years ago. Had a modest success with short stories and with feature writing before concentrating on travel articles. I still write for the print market but enjoy the freedom that online writing offers. Main hobby is reading, theatre, cinema, TV - all the arts I guess. Like some others on Wizzley I'm a refugee from TheTravelEditor and Suite101 and feel I've arrived in a good place.

Cyprus - The Magical Island of Aphrodite

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The Alternative Picture Gallery

Not all art is hanging on walls in the major galleries of the capital. Wander around London's East End, look for the graffitied walls, and be amazed at the art on display.

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Travel & Places

ROME - Where the Past Comes to Life

There is nowhere in the world quite like Rome where amid the elegance of the modern-day city, the ruins of antiquity have their place, right in the middle of the high fashion area.

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Travel & Places

Only in London - New Unique Guide

Duncan J.D. Smith reveals a London hidden to most of us, from Victorian Turkish baths to Lenin and Marx in London, plague pits to private streets that are locked at night.

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Health and Wellness

Manna, from Sicily, not from Heaven

Often called Sicilian gold, manna is a product of the narrow-leaf ash tree, and is used in medicines, foods and cosmetics, and grows only in two places on the island of Sicily

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Culture and Society

A Weekend in a Castle - the White Cliffs Experience

Live like royalty for a week, or even a long weekend, in one of England's lovely old castles. For glorious countryside and beaches try Dover and Walmer in the County of Kent

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Entertainment & Media

Film: The Third Man Museum, Vienna

Critics constantly vote The Third Man. the film directed by Carol Reed from a Graham Green script, to be the best film ever. To see why, visit the Museum devoted to it in Vienna.

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Travel & Places

Tenerife: Great Hotels Lovely Island

The most popular of the Canary Islands and with an equable climate all year round, Tenerife attracts mostly European tourists especially in winter when the weather is perfect

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Culture and Society

The Travelling Woolen Soldiers of WWl

It took 500 knitters to knit the 800 soldiers of this exhibition mounted to coincide with the centenary of World War l. Not everyone has a chance to see it, but if you can, do so.

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Culture and Society

D-Day Landings in Normandy: Part ll

Although the Allies worked together under Supreme Commander General Dwight Eisenhower, the Americans had most to do with Omaha and Utah beaches

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Culture and Society

D-Day Landings in Normandy: Part 1

In this, the 70th Anniversary of the end of WWll, the events of 6th June, 1944, hold as much fascination as ever and visitors still flock to the beaches of Normandy.

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Travel & Places

Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese London

Built after the great fire of London in 1668, frequented by writers down the centuries, the pub still attracts writers and visitors from all over the world.

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Travel & Places

Haight-Ashbury - Alive and Well

Haight-Ashbury, the hub of hippiedom in the sixties and the epicentre of life for the spaced-out days and nights of thousands of the world’s flower children, is alive and well.

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Travel & Places

Vienna, city of art, architecture and music - and those dancing horses

Vienna, cultured, musical city of Strauss and Schubert, was once a downtrodden outpost of the Cold War. Today one wouldn't recognise that other Vienna. It is an exquisite jewel.

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Travel & Places

Bruges - No High Rises, No Ugly Modernity. Just Class

Chocolate, beer, lace, mussels and waffles. What's not to love about a city that provides such food. The horse & carriage rides and trips on canals makes it a top European city.

35% 4 5 Maritravel

Travel & Places

Salzburg - The Sound of Mozart

It shares with Vienna the reputation of being a musical city par excellence, but Salzburg is more than music, it has charm, vivacity and is a delightful city in which to walk

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Huskies and life near the Arctic Circle

A Wilderness Camp at Tromsø near the Arctic Circle in Norway has over 300 Huskies and welcomes visitors who can interact with the dogs, visit reindeer and go sledding.

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John Singer Sargent - Exhibition at London's National Portrait Gallery

This Exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery is a collection of portraits of artists and friends by the man regarded as the best portrait artist of his century, Sargent.

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Travel & Places

Cefalu, Sicily - The Town with Everything

Sicily is breath-taking in its beauty, its countryside sings with colour and natural life, its towns and cities cry out for you to clamber over its ruins and its sunshine seduces.

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