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Lake Annecy in France is unbelievably beautiful, really quiet (too much rain for a lot of tourists) and surrounded by mountains making it the most perfect spot for wild swimming
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Ella Mawson
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I have extensive travel experience throughout France, Italy, Hong Kong and UK.
My travels
Travel Things I Want To Do Before I Die
- Go to Copenhagen in the Autumn and get some first-hand experience of the famous Danish hygge. Sit by a roaring fire, eat lots of pastries, play boardgames...the full works!
- Travel around somewhere, anywhere, by campervan. Canada, New Zealand, Australia...I'm not fussed.
- See the Northern Lights and experience proper stargazing
- Go on an African safari
Best Moments
- Going for a night swim in Lake Annecy, France. The water was freezing, the only light was from the car headlights and it was completely exhilarating
- Weathering a T10 typhoon in Hong Kong and looking out of our window at the usually packed street below to see an abandoned taxi, smashed glass everywhere and some very foolhardy locals struggling to stay on their feet as they battled the wind
- Being ridden around the backstreets of Aswan on a horse and carriage and scraping the sides of the narrow streets as we went
Toughest Travel Moment
- Celebrating getting through the typhoon unscathed only to realise that the water pipe in our bathroom had ripped clean off the wall (unrelated to the storm amazingly) and for five minutes we had water gushing into our apartment. Rang up our landlord only to be instructed in broken English to "take a picture" to which we responded rather hysterically, "we can't take a picture, our flat is flooding!"
Weirdest Travel Moment
- Travelling back from work on the MTR in Hong Kong and chatting to the tallest man I have ever seen in my life only to find out that he was a professional basketball player and the tallest man in all of Italy and Malta (7 ft 5 in). Safe to say we had a lot of people looking our way that journey!
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