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Visiting Lisbon: A Travel Guide by a Local

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Are you visiting Lisbon? These Lisbon travel tips should come in handy to plan an epic city break in Portugal! Today, Jemma Porter tells us about her hometown Lisbon in Portugal! Jemma keeps a blog www.portugalist.com which is specifically about travelling or living in Portugal. She writes about all areas of Portugal from The Algarve to The Azores Islands and you’ll find blog articles about where to find the best Portuguese cakes and which are the best free resources to learn Portuguese and more besides! Here she tells us what makes Lisbon so good that it keeps drawing her back and she recommends what you should be doing and where you should be eating when you are there! Jemma offers some really valuable local advice that you won’t find in a guidebook (especially about where to eat and drink.) But if you want to find out about the best things to do in Lisbon, skip to the end to find out about the best trips and tours in the city! No time to read...

Interview with a Local : San Diego

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Today, Jocelyn tells us about her hometown San Diego . Jocelyn keeps a blog with her boyfriend Toby www.asideofsunsets.com about their travel adventures together since meeting in 2012. Their adventures includes trips to Cuba, South Africa, Hong Kong, Vietnam and more besides! Here she tells us what makes San Diego so great and what she recommends doing whilst you’re there! Where are you living? San Diego, CA! Tell us about yourself? My day job is Director of Marketing at a tech company, but my passion is travel blogging. I’ve lived in San Diego for almost 10 years (January 2018 will be my 10 year anniversary) and originally from Massachusetts. Aside from travel blogging, I love the outdoors – the beach (and thus water activities/boats), hiking, etc. I also love checking out new restaurants and bars and just enjoying everything San Diego has to offer. What is your favorite thing about San Diego? One of my favorite things about San Diego is that the temperate clim...

How to enjoy a weekend in Cardiff – an Interview with a Local

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If you’re planning to spend a weekend in Cardiff, read on to learn from a local (moi) about where to eat and drink, what to do if it rains and the best things to do in Cardiff on a weekend city break… But first… I’d like to introduce an exciting new feature on my blog ‘Interview with a local‘, where I regularly interview people about their cities and hometowns and what makes them special! I’m always advocating asking local advice when you’re away. It’s how you will find the best deals, the nicest restaurants, the friendliest pubs and bars… So in order to introduce this feature, I am going to tell you about my own hometown Cardiff, the capital city of Wales. There are plenty of other city interviews in the pipeline so watch this space…! But first, let’s get back to discussing how to get the most out of a weekend in Cardiff… What you can expect from this article... 1 Interview with a Local: A weekend in ...