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WOMAD/WOMUD

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 | By wick | Views [2673] | Comments [1]

After yet another balloon flight cancellation in Marlborough we headed for the WOMAD site, near Malmesbury. Avebury is one of our favourite places, being a much larger stone circle that Stonehenge, so we made a detour through it. The stones ... Read more >

Tags: On the Road

Day 25 - A few passing moments in London

Tue, 25 May 2010 | By escape | Views [1025]

I must admit, I’ve never been a huge fan of London. It’s one of those places that people either love or don’t. Overpriced dirty hotels mixed with densely packed and polluted sidewalks are not my thing ( ironic since I was just in Antananarivo!) ... Read more >

Tags: london

Jolly Old England

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 | By rtumicki | Views [682]

I am ready to start another walk now that I have been sitting and eating for the last week. Coming to England has been a great rest spot. Hamid is a wonderful host and an excellent cook. He lives in Windsor and since Windsor is small you always have ... Read more >

Tags: On the Road

Test

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 | By heywoods1976 | Views [489] | Comments [2]

Just checking out all the functionality of our journal - Please ignore.

Tags: london

still at home

Sat, 30 May 2009 | By royandania | Views [408] | Comments [1]

We are still at home. Little hung over form the goodbye dinner last night, little frustrated over that things do not go as smoothly as they could, little sad to have spend most of this lovely warm first summers day indoors by the computer and on the ... Read more >

Boat Sweet Boat

Fri, 4 Sep 2015 | By lifehappens | Views [311] | Video | Scholarship Entry

I’m a kind of person who is always looking for changes, new experiences, and something that can drain my soul to another state or simply just reach a new conclusion over my values. I was born in São Paulo, Brazil in a not that rich family. So when I was ... Read more >

Tags: 2015 Film Scholarship to Colombia

Catching a Moment - England at Eighteen

Sat, 6 Apr 2013 | By | Views [275] | Scholarship Entry

I remember the last flight of stairs. It was summer in London, and though the sun was bright in the city, at the top of St. Paul’s Cathedral, the wind whipped at my hair and lashed at my face. In that frigid battle zone, I could see skyscrapers jutting ... Read more >

Tags: Travel Writing Scholarship 2013

26 days to go....

Mon, 5 Jan 2015 | By han_c89 | Views [257]

26 days to go... I think I have sorted everything: Flights Insurance Yellow fever cirtificate CV Copy of highest qualification Sleeping bag I do need a rucksack.. will go to Go-Outdoors tomorrow and buy one.. then it's just a waiting game! So much to ... Read more >

Where is Sherlock?

Mon, 25 May 2015 | By | Views [203] | Scholarship Entry

(Cue In OBB music of Austin Powers) London Baby!!! I decided to splurge on a two-week vacation in London and rendezvous with Bahar, my friend from Turkey who knows the city by heart. Since we had loads of time, we decided to spend our Sunday doing something ... Read more >

Tags: 2015 Writing Scholarship

Prisoners of Pompeii

Wed, 27 May 2015 | By | Views [156] | 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 >

Tags: 2015 Writing Scholarship

Photos: My Scholarship entry - A 'place' I have visited

Sun, 30 Dec 2012 | By past_tourism | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry

I believe photography is about opening your eyes to everything around you and using a camera to create a memory but also bringing others into that one moment. For me this isn’t looking at the obvious but trying to find those things that you walk past ... Read more >
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