Julianna Barnaby at Ojos del Salar in the Atacama Desert, Chile

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I’m Julianna Barnaby. I’ve spent the best part of two decades writing for the likes of Sunday Times Travel, Rough Guides, Lonely Planet and Business Traveller.

These first-hand travel guides are your way into the culture, the adventure and the thrill of real discovery. Travel deeper, discover differently. Because life is too short for boring trips.

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PortugalHow to spend a week in the Algarve, from Lagos’s sea stacks to the dolphins of the Ria Formosa
PortugalA Douro Valley day trip from Porto, and why the slowest way in might be the best onePortugalHow to spend 3 days in Lisbon, from the castle walls to a steak sandwich for dessertPortugalHow to walk the Rota Vicentina, from clifftop fishing paths to cork oak hills
PortugalIlha Deserta, the island off Faro that very nearly lives up to its namePortugalThe Ria Formosa Natural Park, the wild Algarve most visitors fly straight overPortugalWhy you should visit Portugal in October, when the crowds have gone homePortugalEstaminé, the island seafood restaurant you can only reach by boat

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