Helen Ochyra | travel and lifestyle journalist and author

Menorca, the cool new place for a winter city break

Helen Ochyra November 17, 2018 December 8, 2020

“Winter is surely spa season. In the summer I want to be outside, basking in the sun at café tables or on the beach, but now I can think of nothing better than holing up in a steamy subterranean hydrotherapy suite and warming my muscles with hot jets and a …

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Walking on El Hierro, the land that time forgot

Helen Ochyra August 25, 2018 December 8, 2020

“The land on which Paolo and I are standing was for centuries the bit that teetered on the very edge of the map, just back from the line that Christopher Columbus sailed across in 1492, proving that to do so would not mean falling into the abyss.” When I told …

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