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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By ogatodorme | Views [229] | Scholarship Entry
The places we go are made of who we are, what we find and those we meet right then. Each experience is unique. I met Alex at the hostel, a shy mathematician from Belarus who was there on holidays to improve his English. He spoke with great difficulty ... Read more >
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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By glasgowgirl | Views [163] | Scholarship Entry
We had been gifted Scotland’s wettest ever week in which to escape after exams and, as skint students, we were going budget. So, whilst the rest of the Britain migrated south, we headed west to the isle of Islay: a bewildering land where sheep are rife ... Read more >
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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By los4words | Views [309] | Scholarship Entry
It was with a feeling of disconsolation I reached the top of the hill to sit down away from the crowds and reflect. I’d come a long and arduous way today in the hope of getting a sense of whatever spirit this place had to inspire his songwriting, only ... Read more >
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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By phamiltonjournal | Views [78] | Scholarship Entry
“This can’t be right.” Glass buildings still surround us but now there’s something more. An alcove kept hidden from the modern world. A bare skinny tree hangs over five stone headstones. City of London is stamped into a single wooden bench across from ... Read more >
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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By abrontosaurusabroad | Views [135] | Scholarship Entry
It all began, as great epics often do, on a pilgrimage for coffee. The rain had ceased at last. Spurred on by provisional sunlight, I devised to hitchhike up the east coast of the island to Portree, the “capital” of the Isle of Skye. The window seat ... Read more >
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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By francisco-garcia | Views [133] | Scholarship Entry
The sunset was lazily running itself down to its inevitable conclusion, it’s only remainder a smug golden reddish glow somewhere over in the unfamiliar spread of French suburbia. After half an evening of nonsense talk stimulated by cheap supermarket wine ... Read more >
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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By danomalls | Views [133] | Scholarship Entry
You have to do all the planning when you’re travelling solo. Like all of it. I’m going to Yosemite tomorrow, what do I do when I get there? Google. Best places to visit in Yosemite. Yosemite one day itinerary. No, I don’t want to live someone else’s trip.... Read more >
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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By samstills | Views [119] | Scholarship Entry
Its day five of our whirlwind tour of England and since waking up we’ve seen the Apollo Victoria Theatre, which we’ve learned is not the same as the Old Vic; both Westminster Cathedral and Abbey, which it seems are not the same thing; and Big Ben of which, ... Read more >
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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By lewjuggedhare | Views [106] | Scholarship Entry
A rat pranced across the mezzanine where my flatmates and I shared miniature pie platters. Our favorite bartender jolted up the carpeted stairs with a broomstick, chasing the rat back and forth, curving around the floor. My first thought: this is the ... Read more >
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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By edwhitfield | Views [146] | Scholarship Entry
On the road to Llamberis, gateway to the geological splendour of Snowdonia, Goran – friend, travel companion and sworn enemy of the Highway Code, ventriloquizes me. “I can’t see a damn thing, I hope we make it.” His novel approach to the Welsh mist, a ... Read more >
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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By olivia | Views [1595] | Scholarship Entry
There's something very distinctly "London" that stands out from the very moment you set foot on the pavement. It's not Big Ben, the London Eye, or the Shard looming above you like the evil eye of Sauron; it's the exasperated sighs and passive aggressive ... Read more >
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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By sallystott | Views [123] | Scholarship Entry
Somehow we had ended up in the cemetery. After the villa of mysteries, the dog mosaic and the brothel: the final thing on the map. Now it was dark, the tombstones loomed over our heads, and we couldn’t get out. “Gates close at 7.30pm,” a sign had said ... Read more >
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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By williambundy | Views [128] | Scholarship Entry
It's not often you find yourself in a church yard for book reading purposes. Much less a book as epic as “The Silmarillion”, a tome of such length and detail that it took it's author, one J.R.R. Tolkien, much of his life to work on. Yet, here I was ... Read more >
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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By willdalziel | Views [97] | Scholarship Entry
The town of Altanbulag is a lonely place - a slight blemish on a dominant landscape, which acts as a winter home for the various nomadic families that occupy the nearby plains; if you take a moment to look past the corrugated tin roofs and herds of bleating ... Read more >
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