Is this the Emerald City? Our journey along the Yellow Brick Road was nearly done…the traditional end point being the Emerald City and unbelievably one of Sydney’s little known nicknames is …the Emerald City – we hadn’t known that when we set out (…in fact we only just found out when I googled ‘nicknames for […]
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Bombs and Buddhas – Theo’s blog I was 11 when I first became aware of the Vietnam war in 1968/69. News from that terrible conflict, and the anti-war movement in the States, was one of the things that radicalised me early into a teen boy wearing a Mao badge to school and studying the map
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Care and Coercion, Kindness and Control – Theo’s blog I’m writing my last blog from China after leaving China, on a train from Kunming to Luang Prabang in Laos, because there’s things I wouldn’t write about being in China while being in China, just in case. It struck me after our first week here that
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While friends lay sleeping in the west – Theo’s blog The other night, I was standing on the hotel roof gazing at the moon over Guilin. I thought back in my mind across the land we’d travelled over, visualising what my friends at work in England were doing at that moment. That’s when I realised that, although
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Keep your fingers crossed! Today we are heading to Russia. I vacillate (..don’t you think the word ‘vacillate’ sounds a little Russian, like a combination of Vladikavkaz (where we are going) and Vladivostok (where we are not going) …anyway, I vacillate between thinking crossing the border will be a formality, an easy trip, bored border guards
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Profanities and Prayers I am struggling to find the words to describe yesterday… I used up all my best ones on the day before…so Mrs Speechless of Somerset is going to have to dig deep! Let’s start with the good news…the one excellent thing that came out of our need to find another hotel yesterday, was
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Amsterdam to Bucharest overnight… We had a great start in Amsterdam, early morning, easy packing, and a sense of the journey really beginning! We were early for the train and the Netherlands swiftly moved on by, replaced by German industrial towns until we reached Frankfurt where we had our first stop. A swift twenty minute
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