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    Based in the Yorkshire countryside, Emma is a travel and lifestyle writer, who also works as a travel, hotel and Nature photographer. She's wrote for Small Luxury Hotels, The Luminaire, Blumenhaus magazine, Lodestars Anthology and Staays.

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