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Podcast: The best cold climate destinations
Ditch the swim suit for these amazing cold climate destinations – a guide to the best thing to things to do while you’re there.
Traveller's globetrotting backpacker, Ben Groundwater, finds the good, the bad and the ugly in the world’s best destinations. Ben is a columnist, blogger, feature writer, and host of Traveller's podcast Flight of Fancy, who has visited more than 80 countries during his 12 years in the industry. Ben was named travel writer of the year by the Australian Society of Travel Writers in 2014 and 2015.
Ditch the swim suit for these amazing cold climate destinations – a guide to the best thing to things to do while you’re there.
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