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Lindsay Salt

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Parksville, British Columbia: it’s all about the wood

  • 08/05/2022
  • Lindsay Salt
As restrictions ease, Lindsay Salt heads out to Vancouver Island's eastern coast. She finds plenty of nature and one of Canada's latest tourist attractions. Photos, as ever, by David Grimble.
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Vancouver Island
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Footsteps in the sand on Vancouver Island

  • 25/10/2021
  • Lindsay Salt
Lindsay Salt finds plenty to celebrate in Canada on a visit to Vancouver Island's Western coast.
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Vancouver, Canada
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Hemmed in by Covid, some strolls around Vancouver

  • 08/02/2021
  • Lindsay Salt
Lindsay Salt finds her travel options limited by the ongoing pandemic, so stays close to her Canadian home. Photos, as ever, by David Grimble.
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Vancouver Island
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A mini-break in Parksville, British Columbia

  • 26/10/2020
  • Lindsay Salt
Canadian Lindsay Salt takes a visit 'overseas': she leaves her Vancouver home and takes a ferry to Vancouver Island. Photos, as ever, by David Grimble.
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New Mexico
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Acoma, New Mexico’s ‘City in the Sky’

  • 24/06/2020
  • Lindsay Salt
Lindsay Salt heads to the deep south to meet the indigenous Acoma people who still call this inhospitable landscape home. All photos, as ever, by David Grimble.
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Aloha Hawaii! Around the ‘Big Island’ by bike

  • 14/05/2020
  • Lindsay Salt
Lindsay Salt finds the uphill challenges outweighed by the downhill whizzing as she tours the volcanoes, churches and coffee plantations of America's Pacific outpost. Photos, as ever, by David Grimble.
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Joshua Tree National Park
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Desert geography at Joshua Tree National Park

  • 30/04/2020
  • Lindsay Salt
A hike around the desert between the Mojave and Colorado deserts proves something of a highlight from Lindsay Salt's visit to Palm Springs. Photographs, as ever, by David Grimble.
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La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico
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A taste of ‘real’ Mexico in Baja California Sur

  • 24/03/2020
  • Lindsay Salt
Baja California Sur is that thousand-mile tail of Mexico dangling down in the Pacific, creating the Sea of Cortez and whose capital is La Paz. Lindsay Salt explores, with photos, as ever, by David Grimble.
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A Frontier Town in America’s Cascade Mountains

  • 15/11/2019
  • Lindsay Salt
There are no roads to Stehekin, a remote outpost near Canada in the USA's Washington State. Your options are horseback, seaplane or, for Lindsay Salt, boat. Photos, as ever, by David Grimble.
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Colorado landscape
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Discovering the natural beauty of Western Colorado

  • 02/09/2019
  • Lindsay Salt
Lindsay Salt explores Colorado's natural beauty, bought to life with photos by David Grimble.
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Durango, Colorado
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Riding Durango’s narrow-gauge railway in deepest Colorado

  • 14/06/2019
  • Lindsay Salt
Lindsay Salt finds there's still snow piled up when she visits Colorado's historic narrow-gauge railway linking Durango with Silverton. Photos, as ever, by David Grimble.
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Cenote Maya, Yucutan, Mexico
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Mayan ruins and sacred cenotes: Mexico’s Yucutan

  • 29/03/2019
  • Lindsay Salt
Lindsay Salt finds culture and adventure on Mexico's Yucutan Peninsula, with Mayan ruins mixing with natural wonders. Photos, as ever, by David Grimble.
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Zahara, Andalusia, Spain
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Andalusia’s Zahara de la Sierra, with its liquid gold

  • 15/02/2019
  • Lindsay Salt
A visit to one of Spain's 'white villages' introduces Lindsay Salt to narrow cobbled alleys, Christian festivals and the art of pressing the region's 'liquid gold', freshly-pressed olive oil. Photos, as ever, by David Grimble.
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Sunny Seville and its glittering highlights

  • 24/01/2019
  • Lindsay Salt
A day-long tour of Seville gives Lindsay Salt an insight into one of Spain's most captivating cities. Photographs, as ever, by David Grimble.
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Torre de Giralda, Seville
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Seville in Southern Spain, from Cathedral to Flamenco

  • 08/12/2018
  • Lindsay Salt
Lindsay Salt visits Seville Cathedral, climbs the Giralda Tower, and chills out at a Flamenco dance display. David Grimble, as ever, takes the excellent photographs.
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Pursuing the culture and spirit of New Zealand’s Maoris

  • 23/05/2018
  • Lindsay Salt
A traditional village welcome makes Lindsay Salt feel fully attuned to the proud and sturdy Maori culture. Photos, as ever, by David Grimble.
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A captivating 24 hours in Queenstown, New Zealand

  • 11/05/2018
  • Lindsay Salt
The sun comes out in South Island for Lindsay Salt as she explores New Zealand's adventure capital. Photos, as ever, by David Grimble.
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Tongariro crossing, New Zealand
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The Tongariro Alpine crossing, New Zealand’s best day walk

  • 13/04/2018
  • Lindsay Salt
The Tongariro crossing is one of New Zealand's most challenging day hikes through an Alpine landscape. Lindsay Salt steps out boldly. Photos, as ever and with perfectly straight horizons, by David Grimble.
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Isle of Wight, uk
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Welcome to the UK’s Isle of Wight

  • 14/11/2017
  • Lindsay Salt
Lindsay Salt finds walking a breeze on Britain's southern outpost, the Isle of Wight. All photos, as ever, by David Grimble.
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The Gold River, Canada
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Cruising Nootka Sound on the MV Uchuck III

  • 05/10/2017
  • Lindsay Salt
Canada's remote logging, fishing and hunting communities are still served by a tramp cargo vessel that steams up and down the Gold River and along Canada's Pacific coast. Alongside 65 tons of cargo Lindsay Salt loads herself. Pictures, as ever, by David Grimble.
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Jurassic coast, England
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Hiking the cliffs and bays of England’s ‘Jurassic Coast’

  • 12/09/2017
  • Lindsay Salt
Lindsay Salt explores Dorset's dramatic coastline as she hikes along England's southern .shores. All photographs, as ever, by David Grimble.
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Sunny Days on Mexico’s Riviera Nayarit

  • 09/03/2017
  • Lindsay Salt
Trump might not be keen on Mexicans, but Lindsay Salt finds a blast of summer sunshine washes away the winter blues.
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The Tower of Belem
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Lisbon: Portugal’s fascinating capital

  • 11/02/2017
  • Lindsay Salt
In her travels across Europe, Lindsay Salt finds a special charm in Portugal's capital city, Lisbon, birthplace to colonies that stretched across the world.
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Memorable moments along Portugal’s Lisbon coast

  • 20/12/2016
  • Lindsay Salt
Lindsay Salt strollls out along Portugal's Atlantic coast. She finds history and culture in equal measure, though hardly the balmy sunshine expected from the postcards. All photos by David Grimble.
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Gilakas’la (welcome) to Haida Gwaii, British Columbia

  • 23/11/2016
  • Lindsay Salt
Lindsay Salt sets off to explore Canada's wild Pacific coast. Along the way she finds a strong culture, natural beauty - and plenty of rain. Photos and video by David Grimble.
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Exploring Faro and the Ria Formosa National Park

  • 07/10/2016
  • Lindsay Salt
Faro is the gateway to Portugal's Algarve region. Lindsay Salt finds it an ideal place to readjust before travelling out - with photographer David Grimble - to take a look at one of the country's finest National Parks.
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Three action-packed days on Vancouver Island

  • 15/09/2016
  • Lindsay Salt
Canada's eastern coast is (unusually) sunny and benign for Lindsay Salt, as she walks, floats and drives her way around historic Vancouver Island.
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Sounds, tastes and sights in Portugal’s southern Algarve

  • 28/07/2016
  • Lindsay Salt
There's plenty to like about Europe's forgotten colonial power. Lindsay Salt revels in the whitewashed walls of Portugal's rural landscapes.
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New Orleans walking tour
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Still raining down in New Orleans

  • 04/02/2016
  • Lindsay Salt
Eleven years on from Hurricane Katrina Lindsay Salt visits 'the Big Easy'. Ominously, the streets of the Old Quarter are still wet with rain as the tail of this year's cyclone whips by.
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Bikes for the Natchez Trace
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Cycling the Natchez Trace in Mississippi

  • 15/12/2015
  • Lindsay Salt
The best way to explore the southern states is at cycle pace. Lindsay Salt joins a leisurely bicycle tour following the Natchez Trace in deepest Civil War country.
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Rome, view of
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Walking pace is the fastest way to appreciate Rome’s highlights

  • 23/10/2015
  • Lindsay Salt
Independent travel is all very well, but when time is short there's no point blundering around. Lindsay Salt finds guided walks allows her to explore the most important sights and sites of Italy's capital city.
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Dead bits of Italy
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Pompeii and Herculaneum, in the shadows of Vesuvius

  • 10/09/2015
  • Lindsay Salt
Cowering under Vesuvius, the petrified cities of southern Italy were perfectly stuffed by their friendly local volcano. Lindsay Salt steps back into Europe's ancient past.
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Altamura by night
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Off the beaten path in Puglia, southern Italy

  • 05/08/2015
  • Lindsay Salt
The clifftop town of Altamura is the perfect base for Lindsay Salt's trek through Alta Murgia National Park, an unspoiled tract of Italy's south.
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View from the cabin
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Taking a mini-break on British Columbia’s Sunshine Coast

  • 21/07/2015
  • Lindsay Salt
When it comes to coastal getaways, few can match the rugged beauty of Canada's massive coastline. Lindsay Salt kicks her traces and heads out into the not-so-very wild.
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Vancouver Harbour
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A journey of discovery: overland to Alaska

  • 22/01/2015
  • Lindsay Salt
Travelling north from Vancouver, Lindsay Salt tours the highlights of the Yukon and Alaska, drinking in the area's rich, if recent, heritage. All photos by David Grimble.
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Smuggler's Cove, Skagway
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From red-lights to respectable: 100 years of Skagway

  • 27/11/2014
  • Lindsay Salt
In the early days of the Klondike Gold Rush, the settlement of Skagway was born as a trend-setting cluster of very busy brothels. A hundred years on Lindsay Salt discovers it's grown into one of Alaska's most genteel towns.
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San Juan Islands, Washington State, English Camp
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The San Juan Islands of Washington State

  • 26/08/2014
  • Lindsay Salt
Lindsay Salt explores the San Juan Islands off Washington State, discovering history and nature in equal proportion. Pictures by David Grimble.
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Clayoquot signe
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Storm-watching on Canada’s Pacific Rim

  • 15/04/2014
  • Lindsay Salt
Lindsay Salt finds nature at its most elemental off the coast off Vancouver Island's Tofino Beach. Surfers and walkers all find Canada's Pacific coast at it's most beguiling.
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