February was the best month yet in our monthly travel writing competition. The standard of writing was fantastic, right across the board. Jean Ashbury had our hearts in our mouths with her tale of being caught up in a rumble between an elephant and a lion in Botswana, David Ross spooked us with his excellently written account of a trip to a Bolivian witches market and Barnaby Davies went wild when he saw a wolf feeding mere metres from his balcony in Brazil.

But there could only be one winner. And that was a writer who turned something mundane into something beautiful…

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World Kidney Day takes place on 8th March. It fights for awareness and early detection of kidney disease, which affects 600 million people across the globe. Unfortunately, for several million of those the condition will be fatal within the next twelve months. The need for increased awareness is clear. But where does travel insurance come into it?

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Fancy getting your hands on a Kindle? Impress the judges in our easy-to-enter travel writing competition and you can. Better fetch the thesaurus…

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