Category Archive for: ‘NOTES’
High-speeding China
This return into China has been so busy, so rapid that I’ve barely had time to think where I am … The cultural bustle of modernity and traditional I still recognise, know and love as the great China experience – but man, getting here and organized has been one frantic, twisting ride.
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Is the land of smiles beginning to sour – Bangkok, Thailand
As returned to Bangkok’s Khao San Road tourist district I asked myself: Was this a freak day or is the land of smiles turning sour?
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10 indications you’re a freedom junkie, a travel crazy or simply, insane
4. You don’t accept the manipulative fingers of politics, religion, media hype, social gossip, societal obedience, celebrity worship.
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I deserve a drink – Iran / Armenia
I deserve a drink … been a month without alcohol, as I traveled across Iran.
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MRP – unfleshed
I faced the mirror and thought, nearly 45 years old – shit, still single and still on the road; and have been since age 21 …
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Excellent shitty travel advice
With so much ‘great’ travel advice on the web by acclaimed mainstream travelers I’ve decided it time to add my brilliance to the waste pile that passes as peaks of expert advice.
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Jaded-traveler blues – Cairo, Egypt
Done stuff all the past two days … Feeling tired; lousy. Sleeping in a hostel dorm – hopeless! Got woken at 10 P.M. At 2. At 5 by – “ALLAHU AKBAR!” (God is Almighty) – the dawn prayer from a mosque.
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English class – Tai’an, China
Elementary school children at English class, Grade 4, Tai’an, China. The lesson: parts of the body. I would elicit the answer by moving a part of my body and then ask them: What is this? And then ask How many? Big or small? etc …
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