Category: Travel Stories
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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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A VERY SPECIAL GHANA REUNION
LISA&SAM’S #travelsundaystory Our First Ghanian Wedding Reunion! WE HAVE OUR FIRST WEDDING This is SUCH a special Sunday story to tell. 6 years ago, in early 2013, I decided to spin a globe. I’d split up with my first boyfriend, was feeling low and wanted to go away but it was my first trip by…
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TARA
TARA’S #travelsundaystory Living With Borderline Personality Disorder Borderline Personality Disorder Have you ever heard of this before? And if so, what were/are your first thoughts about it? I ask this, because there were only two people I’d ever heard had been associated with it when I was younger – and they were the type of…
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JESS
JESS’S #travelsundaystory Dedicated to Jess’s Dad This is a very special story to me. One of the most awesome things for me travelling has been meeting people that I’ve previously met in other places in different countries weeks or months later. It’s bizarre because you might have hung out for one or two days, but…
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SUE
SUE’S #travelsundaystory Depression and Anxiety Two months into my Colombian adventure, I met Sue on New Years Eve. I noticed Sue because of her beaming smile and the fact as soon as we started talking, her warm energy embraced me like a hug. We realised we had a lot in common, interests, both Jewish and…
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ANONYMOUS
ANONYMOUS’S #travelsundaystory Living with a Parent with Mental Health issues I’m keeping this person anonymous but I met her in a really bizarre situation. In fact I met her in a taxi over a border crossing, and upon realising I couldn’t travel in the part I wanted to due to the weather, decided to move…
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PHIL
PHIL’S #travelsundaystory Men with Bulimia I met Phil on my first day of travelling the world, starting in Colombia. I was struck immediately by his warm persona, his sense of humour greater than mine (I know right? As if) and his impeccably white teeth which suspiciously made him look like the Colgate spokesperson. He was…
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