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  • Kenya, June 2011 – On Safari!
    International Travel | Kenya | Travel Diaries

    Kenya, June 2011 – On Safari!

    Byemfletche August 28, 2015October 9, 2025

    The dust kicks up, obscuring my view for a second. Who won? Does the cheetah have a good tasty gazelle meal tonight, or does the gazelle live to tell the tale?

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  • Travel Diaries: Kenya – Our first African Adventure
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    Travel Diaries: Kenya – Our first African Adventure

    Byemfletche August 27, 2015August 15, 2022

    These Travel Diaries refer to our June 2011 holiday to Kenya. We booked an all-inclusive holiday with TUI, and booked our safari independently through F King Safaris I love travelling. I love discovering new places. What I don’t like is a 9 and a half hour overnight flight. Particularly as I’m unable to sleep on…

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  • Paris in the Springtime: Sacre Coueur and Montmartre
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    Paris Travel Diaries: Montmartre and Sacre Coueur

    Byemfletche August 25, 2015August 16, 2022

    This blog post relates to our Paris City Break, taken in April 2011. On our second day, we explored Montmartre and Sacre Coueur. And I put on a little show of my own in a public toilet. It’s Day 2, and another church bell alarm call. I awake in a panic – someone appears to…

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  • Paris Travel Diaries: Exploring Paris
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    Paris Travel Diaries: Exploring Paris

    Byemfletche August 25, 2015April 17, 2024

    Walking the length and breadth of Paris…

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  • Notre Dame, Paris, France
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    Paris Travel Diaries: Bon Jour Paree!

    Byemfletche August 25, 2015October 7, 2025

    Despite being our nearest European capital city, neither of us have ever visited Paris before, so this becomes our destination of choice for Mr Fletche’s birthday trip.

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  • 2011: Birth of a photographer (and a psychology graduate!)
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    2011: Birth of a photographer (and a psychology graduate!)

    Byemfletche August 22, 2015August 19, 2022

    Somewhere in between our trips to Edinburgh in 2010 and Paris in 2011, two things changed in the Fletcher household.  Firstly, I tentatively took my first module towards my Open University Psychology degree.  I hadn’t studied in almost 20 years. It was time to challenge my teeny tiny brain. I chose psychology for no reason…

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  • A Snowy Weekend in Edinburgh (Part 2)
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    A Snowy Weekend in Edinburgh (Part 2)

    Byemfletche August 22, 2015June 30, 2022

    It’s our second day in Edinburgh, and we can’t wait to explore the city! If the weather allows…

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  • A Snowy Weekend in Edinburgh (Part 1)
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    A Snowy Weekend in Edinburgh (Part 1)

    Byemfletche August 21, 2015February 9, 2021

    For our second wedding anniversary we decide to spend the weekend in Edinburgh. We hear the weather in November is lovely…

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I’m Emmalene, a forty-something born and bred Brummie. Married to Chris. AKA Mr Fletche, taker of photographs, driver abroad and long-suffering travel companion.

I’m a big advocate of eating, drinking and supporting local independent businesses.

But travel is my passion. Simple, easy travel. Here you’ll find how to cram all the sights into a weekend city break. Accidental hikes. Travel fails. Honest rambling travel diaries. Where to find craft beer, gin and street food.

We fit travel around full-time jobs, making the most of weekends, Bank Holidays and maximising those precious annual leave days!

Apart from travel, I love to read books, listen to music, drink gin and visit the theatre.

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