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the sand castle

What are the ingredients that make for a great escape? It must involve a journey. A change of pace, if not an abrupt shift from the quotidian and mundane to a new kind of rhythm that ideally, in my opinion, follows the beat of the sun. A brush with the unfamiliar. A sense of discovery that stimulates parts of the brain decommissioned in the daily commute. I favour nature. Somewhere remote. A place that takes a little effort to get to, but that makes you breathe deeper and think less. A setting that

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