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Weird, wonderful and amazing beaches of the world

Here at Simonseeks we thought it would be fun to look at some beaches around the world that stand out from the crowd with weird and wonder

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Improve your travel writing... and earn more

Want to write about your favourite destinations but find yourself stuck in the literary departure lounge? Struggling to turn your trip into a ripping yarn?

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A new approach from the editors

Many thanks for all your feedback in the “Quality or Quantity” debate, below.

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Road tripping – Rouen to Cabo da Roca

Last month I took part in the Sucata Run, a charity banger rally across Europe in cars worth no more than £250...

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Do we sit on our laurels?

Definitely not ... the Simonseeks team have been busy putting the next batch of features into place for the benefit of both readers and writers.

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Are you talking to me?

They were, but you couldn't answer - writers were keen to answer their critics, but they couldn't. Really, we couldn't believe we'd missed this!

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In Croatia no-one can hear you scream

...that's because it's 6:30am and the noise that the hotel staff are making drowns out all other noise - even screams of frustration as I try to sleep off the previous nights prodigious wine consum

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Target - Top 10 in travel within our first year...

OK, so here’s the deal: Simonseeks started out in June with a view to being one of the top 10 travel sites on the web within its first year, offering its users the most up-to-date, fresh and

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Does my bum look big in this?

We're always looking to add more functionality, from adding video to guides (delivered the other week) to mapping the locations of recommendations (coming soon) to community forums to..

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New incentives to write for Simonseeks: £20,000 in travel-writing prizes

To encourage new and existing writers to contribute to the site, we've decided to offer a hundred prizes of £200 to our writing community.

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