The Bard in Kongowe
Sitting in a spacious, with and blue brick room, I gazed around me at a full (for once) class and found myself wondering what I could do to make them fall in love with the English language.
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Cheese hats in Green Bay
“You won’t get a room,” Brenda says, shaking her head. She taps her immaculate red nails on the steering wheel and, for the first time since getting in the cab, her smile wanes.
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La Vida Loca; travel encounter
Mexico Valle Nacional at four in the morning was silent save for the chirping of a cicada and a dog barking in the distance. We cycled south over a mine field of deep rain-filled potholes and crossed the Cosomoloapan River.
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I met a man who lives only today
I met a man who lives only today. Like a butterfly. He never lives tomorrow and never looks back onto yesterday.
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A break in the haze
You'd have thought the gnarled, snaggle-toothed old man in his tiny wood-and-tin shack was several days' trek from the nearest village, such was the aura of isolation about the place.
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A copshop cuppa
Loitering outside the austere concrete monolith that were the police headquarters, instinct told me we should be lying low. Instead, we were trying to draw attention to ourselves while hopping around on the...
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Shih Dong Traditional Chinese Market
The plan was to stop by for a mere five minutes, but even before I step under the bright lights beyond the inner doors, it starts. Like the layers of an onion, what was first one big buzz begins to peel away and disentangle in pieces.
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Fishing in Paradise
I was stranded in a boat in the middle of Pulau Perhentian's harbour, surrounded by perfectly still turquoise water.
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A Rhino Encounter
“Black rhinos are very aggressive, very territorial”, our guide told us, pointing to tracks on the ground. “This is the print of a black rhino. Look, come closer, you can see from the dung. It is fresh.”
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