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Far-flung places: October 2009. Subscribe to far-flung places. And receive email alerts when this blog is updated. Add to your RSS reader. Tuesday, October 20, 2009. Portugal has the worst drivers in all of western Europe, or so everyone keeps telling us. So, what did we do? We rented a car for the weekend to head north up the coast to Porto. The next morning, we made our way to Aveiro, the "Venice of Portugal" where we navigated the canals in an old, brightly painted wooden boat. On Sunday, we headed to...
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Far-flung places: A glimpse of pueblo culture on Three King's Day. Subscribe to far-flung places. And receive email alerts when this blog is updated. Add to your RSS reader. Thursday, January 07, 2010. A glimpse of pueblo culture on Three King's Day. A processional of drummers, dancers and chiefs made their way through the village, stopping to perform in front of residents' homes. As dancers approaches, the pueblo's women would call out in a very high-pitched trill. It was an awesome sound when h...I onl...
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Far-flung places: July 2009. Subscribe to far-flung places. And receive email alerts when this blog is updated. Add to your RSS reader. Thursday, July 30, 2009. Day One Pays Off Despite Lack of Sleep. The cure for jet lag is to have too much to do and not enough time in which to do it. That sums up our first day in Europe, which we spent in Switzerland. The highlight of our day was the wine trail in the hills above the town of Lausanne. Unfortunately, "trail" is an overstatement. We were lucky to...Along...
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Far-flung places: February 2010. Subscribe to far-flung places. And receive email alerts when this blog is updated. Add to your RSS reader. Saturday, February 20, 2010. Seeing White in Greenland. Seeing White in Greenland. Originally uploaded by Far Flung Traveler. I won first place in a Flickr photo contest with this image today. Posted by Laura Watilo Blake. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Laura Watilo Blake is an internationally published photographer and journalist specializing in soft adventure and cult...
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Far-flung places: January 2009. Subscribe to far-flung places. And receive email alerts when this blog is updated. Add to your RSS reader. Thursday, January 29, 2009. Taipei 101: The other way down. In a recent post, I talked about my visit to Taipei 101. Which currently holds the record for the tallest building in the world, not to mention the fastest elevator in the world. Well, I found out there is a faster way to get down from the top. Baumgartner made a safe landing on a parking lot. "F*&#ing A!
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Far-flung places: Weekend Excursion. Subscribe to far-flung places. And receive email alerts when this blog is updated. Add to your RSS reader. Tuesday, October 20, 2009. Portugal has the worst drivers in all of western Europe, or so everyone keeps telling us. So, what did we do? We rented a car for the weekend to head north up the coast to Porto. The next morning, we made our way to Aveiro, the "Venice of Portugal" where we navigated the canals in an old, brightly painted wooden boat. On Sunday, we head...
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Far-flung places: August 2009. Subscribe to far-flung places. And receive email alerts when this blog is updated. Add to your RSS reader. Wednesday, August 26, 2009. Not-so-smooth sailing for young adventurer. Should a 13-year-old be allowed to sail around the world by him or herself? That was the question posed on yesterday's "World Have Your Say" on BBC Radio. An editorial in the Dutch daily De Volkskrant. What do you think? Posted by Laura Watilo Blake. Sunday, August 09, 2009. Pat giving it her all d...
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Far-flung places: May 2009. Subscribe to far-flung places. And receive email alerts when this blog is updated. Add to your RSS reader. Thursday, May 28, 2009. Hoodoo you think you are? Posted by Laura Watilo Blake. Monday, May 25, 2009. Going over the edge. Just sit back over the ledge," says my guide Greg Istock. . I've put my trust in this man, who refers to himself as Mr. Greg, to lead me into a narrow slot canyon in Dixie National Forest near Zion National Park, but the urge to go over the edge o...
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Far-flung places: One part rodeo, one part gladiator. Subscribe to far-flung places. And receive email alerts when this blog is updated. Add to your RSS reader. Saturday, October 17, 2009. One part rodeo, one part gladiator. Portuguese bullfights differ from those in other countries in two major ways. First, the star of the show is not the matador, but a horseman bullfighter, costumed as an 18th-century nobleman, with a plumed hat and embroidered coat. The principle characters paraded into the ring, led ...
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Far-flung places: March 2009. Subscribe to far-flung places. And receive email alerts when this blog is updated. Add to your RSS reader. Wednesday, March 04, 2009. In April 2008, Ed Stafford begain a 4,000-mile journey on foot from the source of the Amazon River in southern Peru to the mouth in Brazil. The aim," his website. States, "is to use the expedition as a educational tool to raise empathy for local attitudes by collecting and broadcasting the different 'Voices from the Amazon.'".
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