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Honeymoon in hell

As the sweeping scenery spread out before me, I couldn’t resist pulling out my camera.

‘Oi,’ my new husband Jack, then 29, laughed. ‘Talk about a busman’s holiday.’

I giggled.

Me and Jack were both photographers.

So even though we were on honeymoon, I couldn’t resist taking snaps.

Me and Jack had wed in December 2022.

Now it was May 2023 and we were visiting the driest place in North America and the hottest place on Earth, Death Valley in California.

Not a traditional honeymoon. But we had bonded over our love of adventure.

Sitting on a sun lounger in the Maldives was never going to be for us.

Now, looking at the desert’s golden sand dunes and snow-white salt flats,

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