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Winner · Best Travel Blogger · British Travel Awards 2020

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WINNER · BRITISH TRAVEL AWARDS 2020 · BEST TRAVEL BLOGGER ·
British Travel Awards 2020 · Teletext Holidays Best Travel Blogger

Voted Best Travel Blogger.

In our first 18 months alone, we walked away with a Best Newcomer Award, and the coveted overall Teletext Best Travel Blogger Award at the British Travel Awards.

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James and Lee sitting in a giant woven nest at Wanagiri Hidden Hills, Bali Wanagiri · Bali
Scribe (noun): a writer, a journalist

Hello, we're James & Lee.

Our surname, Scrivener, loosely translates as ‘writer’, and that's what we are. One from London, one from Cape Town. We call ourselves moderate meanderers: not speedy, not slow, firmly mid range. Sometimes a hostel, sometimes a splurge, always honest about which.

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