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Sun, 27 Mar 2011 | By zitawhalley | Views [261] | Scholarship Entry
The first thing I do upon my arrival in Moscow is lock myself out of my new home. In time I will discover an old Russian proverb that states: Only a fool smiles all the time. “Is your friend telling a joke?” “No.” “Why smile?” This sour logic ... Read more >
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Sun, 27 Mar 2011 | By toutelabeaute | Views [208] | Scholarship Entry
My adventure began with a typical trip from Cardiff to London, which I had taken many of times. I was on my way to an interview, and only had a vague idea what the job had in store for me. By the end of the day my head was spinning with every emotion ... Read more >
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Sun, 27 Mar 2011 | By amie_bings | Views [247] | Scholarship Entry
On my first trip to Morocco my slightly infatuating guide recommended the Gnaoua and World Music Festival in the small seaside town of Essaouira. I was convinced and in June I found myself squeezed into a rusty bus with less leg room than a domestic ... Read more >
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Sun, 27 Mar 2011 | By jimmyshaw | Views [205] | Scholarship Entry
The bus arrives with the kicked up dust: one last throb of engine and everything settles. Not that the desert is every truly still – there are lizards with their bellies to the ground, the darting bounds of kangaroo mice. The wind is often restless and ... Read more >
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Sun, 27 Mar 2011 | By seeandlearn | Views [80] | Scholarship Entry
It was November 2009 when I decided I wanted to go on a trip for holiday in Georgia .I searched the website for trips in Georgia. I collated historical places, of information on various holiday destinations . I found that most holidays were designed for ... Read more >
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Sun, 27 Mar 2011 | By letshittheroad | Views [227] | Scholarship Entry
“Are you crazy?” That’s family and friends respond when I told them about Eurotrip solo. Even though I did it often in Indonesia and Asia but they think Europe is a different thing. I’m disagree but I can’t really blame them. The fact that I’m not coming ... Read more >
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Sun, 27 Mar 2011 | By lucille_schnierer | Views [164] | Scholarship Entry
It was the day that went so disappointingly wrong, and ended up, as is often the case, unexpectedly and so illustriously right. After missing out on what I assumed would be the highlight of my Italian escapade, a bike ride tour through the vineyards sprawling ... Read more >
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Sun, 27 Mar 2011 | By steve_oh | Views [141] | Scholarship Entry
The overnight train from Kolkata wheezes its way into New Jalpaiguri, at the foothills of the Himalayas, with the strain of someone at the end of a marathon. With a metallic shriek the train jerks to a stop and collecting my backpack I hop off the 10-... Read more >
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Sun, 27 Mar 2011 | By studen | Views [148] | Scholarship Entry
A long, hungover bus journey took me from the dusty, busy city of Amritsar up to the peaceful hills of Dharamsala. The roads got steadily worse as we wound our way uphill, but the air got cleaner and fresher, and the scenery became more and more majestic ... Read more >
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Sun, 27 Mar 2011 | By marcus | Views [259] | Scholarship Entry
As the old city of Dali fades into the distance, the land surrounding ear-shaped Lake Erhai becomes occupied by rice paddies and the small local communities which tend them. Seeking to explore one of these, I follow a rain saturated road, as pock-marked ... Read more >
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Sun, 27 Mar 2011 | By puddlesofambrosia | Views [478] | Scholarship Entry
Dhai Kiri Kiri Thick pipes of smoke would come slithering across the greying street, twist and turn around your frame and threaten to torch to ashes your garden of polychrome delights with ... Read more >
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Sun, 27 Mar 2011 | By mytraveladventures | Views [176] | Scholarship Entry
As I walked across the Wagah border into Pakistan, I felt as though I was stepping in to a looking glass. To my Indian sensibilities, everything seemed the same except for the air. The air curled and settled quietly in nooks, cracks and unseen corners.... Read more >
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Sun, 27 Mar 2011 | By kokoton | Views [227] | Scholarship Entry
Living in the same country doesn’t mean that the people and their culture is exactly the same. They may share some basics traditions, but the idiosyncrasy of the people in each region is so different that it wouldn´t be an exaggeration if I say that ... Read more >
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Sun, 27 Mar 2011 | By naftalanja | Views [437] | Scholarship Entry
Earthy bread Two smells were accompanying me and underpining this belonging to a “certain world”. The smell of burning wood and the smell of earth after the first rain..., which I learned later that that has a name, called naftalanja. My daydreaming–memory ... Read more >
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Sun, 27 Mar 2011 | By portlandvagabond | Views [609] | Scholarship Entry
An Unsettling Quiet Standing on the bow of the small cruise ship in a channel of Doubtful Sound, I was struck by the silence. True, I was in an isolated fiord at the southern tip of New Zealand, far from the smallest village, but I stood facing a ... Read more >
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