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The Write Brain: July 2011
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Come explore topics relevant to the writer's life, adventure travel, cycling and living in a foreign culture. Friday, July 1, 2011. Nature's Miracle at the Top of Italy. Balcony view: Lagació Mountain Residence, Alta Badia. Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else." — Lawrence Block. My eyes were open but could I still be dreaming? Shuffling sleepy-eyed onto my balcony at lovely Lagaci. The Sound of Music. Agustina Lagos Marmol,.
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The Write Brain: Crime? What Crime?
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Come explore topics relevant to the writer's life, adventure travel, cycling and living in a foreign culture. Thursday, July 29, 2010. Stop worrying about the potholes in the road. And celebrate the journey.". I’ve done the deed. It’s over,. There was no violence this time, no visible bloodshed. That came in earlier chapters of. My ’Dam Affair, Confessions of a Second Childhood. Unlike Raskolnikov, I have no mental angst about this deed. It’s the deed for a 2-bedroom apartment on Groenmarktkade. Other hi...
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The Write Brain: Snapshot: Scandinavia, Part I; Helsinki to St. Petersburg
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Come explore topics relevant to the writer's life, adventure travel, cycling and living in a foreign culture. Friday, September 14, 2012. Snapshot: Scandinavia, Part I; Helsinki to St. Petersburg. Throw in fresh fish from the Baltic and Norwegian Seas, English-speaking locals and myriad transportation options, and this epic expanse of glaciers, forests, lakes and volcanoes became a seductive siren call for me. View from the Flam Railway: sheer walls of stone drip into fjord-side villages. Couchsurfer Joh...
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The Write Brain: Rainbow Nation Ramble: South Africa by Bike
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Come explore topics relevant to the writer's life, adventure travel, cycling and living in a foreign culture. Thursday, February 16, 2012. Rainbow Nation Ramble: South Africa by Bike. Once a declining dock area, Cape Town's. Victory and Alfred Waterfront. Is now a tourist mecca. You can count on Doug Lofland and Bike Beyond Boundaries. Iconic Table Mountain shelters. Cape Town's Company's Garden. BBQs) starring grilled delicacies cooked over open flames. Stunning Chapman's Peak Drive. Southern Hemisphere...
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The Write Brain: My Thai: A Month in New Siam
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Come explore topics relevant to the writer's life, adventure travel, cycling and living in a foreign culture. Sunday, January 23, 2011. My Thai: A Month in New Siam. A'dam welcomed 2011 with a bang. Please Vote for Me in the BootsnAll Indie Travel Challenge! Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.” Paul Theroux. On the first day of 2011, while frigid A'dam recouped from a night of neon, I slipped through Little Beirut bound for The Land of Smiles. In our heads...
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The Write Brain: Nature's Miracle at the Top of Italy
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Come explore topics relevant to the writer's life, adventure travel, cycling and living in a foreign culture. Friday, July 1, 2011. Nature's Miracle at the Top of Italy. Balcony view: Lagació Mountain Residence, Alta Badia. Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else." — Lawrence Block. My eyes were open but could I still be dreaming? Shuffling sleepy-eyed onto my balcony at lovely Lagaci. The Sound of Music. Agustina Lagos Marmol,.
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The Write Brain: March 2011
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Come explore topics relevant to the writer's life, adventure travel, cycling and living in a foreign culture. Tuesday, March 1, 2011. Traveling the World with No GPS. 8220;Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.”. At the oldest of the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World. Rather than counter with something like, “No one will believe I went to college if I didn't backpack across one continent or another,” I called on St Augustine. I like to think I´m one of the lat...
