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Sun, 18 Nov 2007 | By travelheart24 | Views [1795] | Comments [7]
A Kiwi, two Irish, a Canadian and an American get on a train.... and no one in their carriage sleeps for the next 14 hours! hehehe, okay maybe we weren't that bad... but nearly! Most passengers enjoy the train or are indifferent about it, but these ... Read more >
Tags: Laughter
Fri, 19 Dec 2008 | By mazystar | Views [1062] | Comments [2]
I arrived safely back in Zhangzhou on the 14th and I haven't written for a few days because I've been busy writing up my stories from Shanghai (there are more to come) and organising my self for my next trip. I leave for Hanoi, Vietnam in a few hours ... Read more >
Thu, 29 Oct 2009 | By avoidthenastyones | Views [991] | Comments [2]
So i am ashamed to say that the inspiration behind this oh-very-creative title was P.O.D, the band i listened to when i was in 7th grade. They were bad-ass, talking about god and all...Don't judge me! it was 7th grade...and maybe a few more years after.... Read more >
Fri, 16 Mar 2012 | By oryxx | Views [937]
One of the things I notice when I teach piano to adults is
how people get in the way of their learning.
People will say they’ve wanted to learn piano for years and it’s a dream
come true to be starting lessons, but all too often they stop because ... Read more >
Tue, 12 Oct 2010 | By kittben | Views [817] | Comments [1]
Yangshuo
All 7 of us went to our respective rooms at the Showbiz
hostel, showered, changed, & met on the rooftop bar. I can guarantee that (short of climbing one
of the surrounding mountains), this is the best view in town, nestled in the
heart ... Read more >
Sat, 27 Sep 2014 | By paulinemendes | Views [778]
A taxi trip, followed by a bus trip got us to this iconic venue about 2 hours from Kunming. We congratulated ourselves on getting there and back given the language barrier. Lots of gesturing and using your fingers for numbers seems to work.
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Mon, 7 May 2012 | By oryxx | Views [598]
Some time ago, I wrote a bit about my state of mind and what
had been happening in my head. Today I’m
going to write some more about this. I
always wonder if it’s too personal to go onto a public space, but again, I feel
this is relevant to everyone ... Read more >
Sat, 6 Sep 2014 | By daveonhols | Views [578]
Vast, grand, cavernous. Our train pulled into Shanghai's Hongqiao station. Newly built, but next to the old airport, Hongqiao is typical of the probably dozens of new, huge, railway stations being built across the country. China's central ... Read more >
Tags: shanghai china food train
Sat, 21 Jan 2017 | By ljkennedy | Views [488]
After a 15 hour flight, I thought I would have a coffee. Was delighted to see a Starbucks. I decided to follow the advice of a young woman who sat near me on the plane and experience some local coffee. She purchased a "white coffee" for me from a shop ... Read more >
Fri, 15 Jul 2016 | By excellentadventure | Views [455]
Came through the mountains to Beijing this morning - something nice to wake up to. Yobyn our newest honcho met us at the station and found out we will have to get use to a lot of people staring at us and taking pictures. After a rest and an unpack Yobyn ... Read more >
Thu, 15 May 2014 | By | Views [254] | Scholarship Entry
I’ve spent months on the build-up, getting an internship at a magazine telling people all the great things I’m going to do and see, when really I have no idea what I’m doing- am I doing the right thing? As the flight descends through the smog the communist ... Read more >
Tags: 2014 Travel Writing Scholarship - Euro Roadtrip
Tue, 29 Apr 2014 | By | Views [201] | Scholarship Entry
The smell of stinky tofu. It is one thing to see it sitting in jars with indecipherable Chinese writing-the cloudy lumps in sanitized jars are contained, safe. On humid streets I am confronted with what I believe to be the most noxious smell, only comparable ... Read more >
Tags: 2014 Travel Writing Scholarship - Euro Roadtrip
Sun, 14 Oct 2012 | By emacinat | Photo Gallery
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Thu, 27 Jun 2013 | By simonesantoba | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry
Simone Baldi, known also with the name Simone Santo Ba, from 1983's. Background is humanistic and foreign cultures, and Photography Communication,
I have collaborated in some movie of Luca Vullo as "La Voce del Corpo" documentary about Sicilian body ...
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Thu, 25 Oct 2007 | By adde | Photo Gallery
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