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5 CRAZY CULTURE SHOCKS – SE ASIA VS UK
I’ve been travelling South East Asia now since my stop in Bangkok, 31st July, 2019. I did spend a little time in Malaysia and Southern Thailand at the start of July before I flew home to celebrate my birthday, but upon arrival in Bangkok I’ve really covered the majority of what SE Asia has to…
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WHY LAOS WAS NOT AS LAOS-Y AS THAILAND
Howdy howdy HEY reader! I’m back. I mean I was never really away, I’ve just been sooooo lazy busy that I’ve got many topics to write, send off and haven’t actually had the time to get around to it. UPDATE TIME MUM – Poor Mum. I managed to catch her on FaceTime when I was…
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Meeting a Cambodian Genocide Survivor: My Most Special Travel Experience
This is Bou Meng. He is 3rd from the right of the B&W photo. He is one of only 7 known survivors of the Khmer Rouge imprisonment in the S-21 Tuol Sleng camp where 20,000 Cambodians were tortured and killed in 1975. What was the Khmer Rouge? I didn’t know anything about it, until a…
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ANITA
ANITA’S #travelsundaystory Diagnosed with Hypothyroidism Back in January, I left a group of friends in Colombia rushing to Peru to make my Machu Pichhu trip in time. I’d taken planes, buses, tried to fit in two excursions and got onto another bus to Cusco – because I suck at timings and it’s always more fun…
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FREIMAN
FREIMAN’S #travelsundaystory Escaping the Venezuelan Crisis Hello! It’s been a month since my last #travelsundaystory and this weekend I’ll be sharing a tale close to my heart – my encounter with Freiman and his family in Colombia. At first I was writing a story every Sunday but I was starting to get stressed about posting…
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