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The Underground Palace, Istanbul

  • September 22, 2020
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This is the first time I have ever gone to Istanbul and what a mystical, place it is with so many sights and sounds to see. Stepping back in time to the 6th century the underground dark remains of the Palace Cistern...
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I’ve Arrived

  • September 22, 2020
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Even as I took in the hot summer weather and gorgeous green scenery, I still couldn't help feeling a bit homesick. I had recently experienced a major disillusionment with someone I considered a good friend;
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The Ghost City

  • September 22, 2020
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A cold autumn sun is kissing yellow leaves that are dancing in the wind. A squirrel is looking for something to eat on the ground. It does not scare people. The grass and tree trunks break through asphalt and concrete walls.
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What does a bear do in the woods

  • September 22, 2020
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Before I meet my gruesome and untimely end, I have a few moments to ponder my predicament and reflect on how I came to be perched on a slat of wood in the Alaskan outback, pants round my ankles and about to be...
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In the wrong place, at the wrong time

  • September 22, 2020
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Our plan was to walk up the east side of the hill, over the top and down towards the sunset, to meet Daudi, our driver. Jamie carried a rifle and a radio, and I had binoculars. Our clients were bedecked with an assortment...
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Nice to Paris Sleeper Train

  • September 22, 2020
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Travelling across Italy to get home because of a difficultly named volcano in Iceland wasn't the perfect end to my honeymoon.
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Sunrise in the Sahara

  • September 22, 2020
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We were at the last stretch of our journey. A nine hundred forty kilometer train ride through the Sahara. The train must have been at least fifty years old. It was a fittingly beige color, blending in nicely with the endless...
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Trouble in Paradise

  • September 22, 2020
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Our family bounced with excitement as we boarded the ship taking us on our Hawaiian cruise. My husband Chris had made all the arrangements. Chris is a “big picture” kind of guy, whereas I'm a more detail-oriented...
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Shipwrecked on Ibo Island

  • September 22, 2020
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‘One of the most adventurous border crossings in Africa’. I think that’s how it began. Reading these words describing the border crossing from Tanzania into Mozambique, I felt the restless stirrings of adventure.
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The Place I Didn’t Want To Be; Temerloh

  • September 22, 2020
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Once upon a time in my life, precisely a year back, I went to a town called Temerloh. It is located in Central Pahang of Malaysia and very famous for its exquisite attributes. I was invited for a three days Malaysian...
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