Alexandros Yiannopoulos is Oxfam’s coordinator of food security and livelihood in Haiti. To find out more about Oxfam in Haiti visit their website here . It is a strange life being a humanitarian worker. The funeral of two of Oxfam’s workers who died in the earthquake got me to look back over the...
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Oxfam blog: time to think big in Haiti
Alexandros Yiannopoulos is Oxfam’s coordinator of food security and livelihood in Haiti. To find out more about Oxfam in Haiti visit their website here . It is now time to think big, three weeks in we have a plan, good people in place and now we have to try to achieve one of...
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Driving into the heart of the Turkish countryside
Better roads are making it easier to escape the coast in a hire car and drive from Izmir to Dalaman into a land unspoilt by tourism Lunchtime in Mugla was a simple affair. Sara and I parked the car and settled in at one of a long line of wobbly trestle tables outside...
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Manorhaus, Ruthin | Hotel review
A Welsh boutique hotel that complements its city-slicker image with great food and roaring fires MANORHAUS Well Street, Ruthin, Denbighshire, North Wales (01824 704 830; manorhaus.com ) FIRST IMPRESSIONS I will admit to a twinge of doubt about manorhaus before I set off. There's something about the combination of the words "boutique" "art...
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Game for anything: the safari lodge that thinks it’s a beach resort
Tanzania's Saadani Safari Lodge is in East Africa's only coastal game reserve, where the amazing palm-lined beach is matched by the wildlife spotted on game drives – and by the friendliness of the local Masai tribe Though we couldn't yet see them, we could hear their chants: deep, throaty grunts that rumbled out...
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