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ARGENTINA | Tue, 27 Oct 2009 | By travel-tips | Views [397] | Comments [1]
One two, miss a few, ninety-nine, trescientos millones . That’s the number of people who hable Spanish: Three hundred million, almost five percent of the world population. While the suits are battling Mandarin, travellers of every strain are turning ... Read more >
Tags: argentina, spanish, buenos aires, language, latin america, travel-tips
MEXICO | Thu, 10 Sep 2009 | By safetyhub | Views [818] | Comments [1]
Ay, Caramba! You’ve gone on that long awaited vacation to Mexico and all of sudden you 1. Are sick 2. Had your money stolen or 3. Are stuck alone on a roadside! At World Nomads we’re lucky to have lots of friends in the travel industry, we polled ... Read more >
Tags: mexico, travel safety, water contamination, drug trafficking, spanish, language, 5 things
USA | Fri, 27 Feb 2009 | By jjassen | Views [178] | Comments [2]
After rome, I traveled with a guy from the USA to Sicily, where we
toured both Palermo and Agrigento in a lightning-quick fashion before
headng east on the island to Catania, which I like a great, great deal.
Once again, the hostel means so much.... Read more >
Tags: catania, hector, italy, sicily, italian, language
JAPAN | Wed, 17 Sep 2008 | By bundynbeaches | Views [237]
I didn't know what to expect here in Japan. But I didn't really think the streets would be so clean, the cars so small and people constantly folding in half. These guys are constantly bowing in greeting, farewell or just for the hell of it. Everyone ... Read more >
Tags: work, people, culture, language
ISRAEL | Fri, 28 Dec 2007 | By sstolper | Views [332] | Comments [2]
I tried to play Ms. Pacman while I was waiting for airplane boarding, but the machine wouldn't accept my quarters, until I realized that I had been repeatedly inserting the Chinese yuan that Matthiah gave me when he visited. Thats about ... Read more >
Tags: religion, transportation, language, israel
AUSTRALIA | Tue, 4 Sep 2007 | By simon_monk | Views [477]
We'd just finished up at the 15th birthday party of the Fred Hollows Foundation who we work with and I was flagging a ride home to Glebe.
"Tambo la mokili" said taxi driver with a huge laugh as I got in. How did he know I work in travel? ... Read more >
Tags: footprints network, taxi, stories, language, zanzibar, footprints
USA | Wed, 11 Apr 2007 | By markarianlawrence | Views [2561] | Comments [1]
The Armenian language ( Armenian : հայերեն լեզու , — hayeren lezu , conventional short form hayeren ) is an Indo-European language spoken by the Armenian people in the Republic of Armenia , in Georgia ... Read more >
Tags: Language
GREECE | Wed, 12 Jul 2006 | By colleen_finn | Views [171]
Yesterday I saw an English-language book titled “Learn Greek in 25 Years.” I thought this was pretty funny, especially since I am having quite a bit of trouble with the language. Greek is an Indo-European language, quite possibly the oldest in Europe ... Read more >
Tags: cultural observations, language
