Travel
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Guest Post: One day in New York
When you visit the Big Apple, you’ll know why they call it the city that never sleeps. Only here can you ride the subway at 6 am and be met by a train full of bright eyed bankers with their morning coffee in tow, nurses in scrubs coming home from the late-shift, and extreme partiers stumbling home just before dawn. You can come here and check off the Trip Advisor bucket list, because why wouldn’t you want to see the…
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Introductions – Elementary Japanese
Ha ji me ma shi te は じ め ま し て Ha ji me ma shi te は じめまして wa ta shi wa ne ko わ た し わ ね こ watashiwa neko わた しわ…
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Requiem – Sketches from SF
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Help a brother out – you can make a real life fairytale proposal happen !!
Antonio from Zagreb, Croatia is planning to propose his girlfriend in a special way. He plans to show her pictures of friends and well-wishers from the 194 countries, recognized by UN, holding up a note which reads “JELENA UDAJ SE ZA MENE” ( translation: Jelena marry me). So far he has received pictures from few countries, but time is running out :). Whichever country you are reading this from, if you would like to help Antonio with his plan,…
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The Mekong – mighty for how long ?
Travelers to SE Asia, will most likely have a brush with the Mekong. After experiencing which, they will usually refer to it as the Mighty Mekong. The river is “omnipresent” in the region, originating in Tibetan Plateau, it flows through parts of China, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam before merging with the South China Sea. As is in most riverside communities, the locals speak of it very highly. Most around the Mekong make a livelihood stemming from it – ranging from the…
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Desserts for breakfast are the jam – Travel diaries
Chocolate sticky rice with bananas and fresh watermelon juice for side. Perfect mornings are made with sweets.
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Conversations in transit – 3
Remember, you can go all over the world seeking happiness — to the most beautiful places imaginable — but in the end, a pretty view is just wallpaper. It’s people that matter.
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Countryside – Travel diaries
Monsoon greens from the countryside.
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Walking the line – Travel diaries