Money, I seem to talk about it a lot in my blogs, or rather the lack of it. I realise this, and I wonder whether my readers think that money is all I ever think about. It is, alas, the bane of the budget traveller, the eternal enemy on the road. It mocks you from that resort on the perfect white sandy beach surrounded by turquoise waters which you know you can never afford. It teases you with activities that are actually beyond your meagre resources, but which you really, really want to do. It lures you in by taking you to far-away places and then presenting you with the bill, knowing full well that when you have come all that way you are unlikely to forsake whatever made you come there in the first place,
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