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25 Travel peeves Backpackers can grow from

Posted by Luke in Wednesday, July 28th 2010

I just read an interesting post at The Art of Backpacking, entitled “25 Travel peeves Backpackers can agree on“. I have to agree that some of the points raised are valid, and I can sympathise with them, but I also think that to have a list of 25 “peeves” on their own does not reveal [...]

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A Language Roadblock For Westerners

Posted by Luke in Sunday, September 20th 2009

Did you know that “ma” can have at least 11 meanings?

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1 year, 7 months, 6 days, 11 hours, 25 minutes, 53 seconds

25 Travel peeves Backpackers can grow from

I just read an interesting post at The Art of Backpacking, entitled "25 Travel peeves ..more»

Realisation of Self: Number 237

Travel seems to afford people with alot of time for navel-gazing. I am no different. In fact, when I left Bangkok, Thailand for Yangon, Myanmar (or Rangoon, Burma, dependent on whether you recognise the name changes), I actually made a point of leaving my laptop behind, and trying to pack as few distractions as possible so that I could engage in both some good and intense gazing into my navel, as well as remove anything I could put between myself and the locals - to draw them in and me out, so to speak.

A Language Roadblock For Westerners

Did you know that "ma" can have at least 11 meanings?

Preparing for Myanmar

Myanmar - a country with no ATMs, a military junta, random bombings and an impending anniversary of an uprising. I sure can pick my travel destinations, can't I?