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20-Dec-2009 10:01
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r1j2s3t4 »
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23-Dec-2009 20:21
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fluffy_bunny »
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But I think that some languages are spoken faster and some are spoken slower. Because I was lisining to a person from Russia speak english and it was 5 times faster then I do. Maybe that particular person just spoke very fast. Anyone have an opinion on that.
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20-Dec-2009 08:22
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simpletraveller »
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23-Dec-2009 19:45
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gawkabout »
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Hey all,
Years ago, things were simple - you would go on a trip, with one backpack, few postcards and a phone call to home once in a while. Travelling seemed safe and lack of communication was doing mainly good for worries back home.
During the years, communication has developed, and availability as well. With mobile phones you couldn't get more further, and everything is done online, quick, on the spot. also communicating.
10 years ago, I was travelling alone, my mother would be worried - but not too much. She was mainly excited to hear the trips when coming back.
Now - before my trip to the philippines this week, alone again, she just couldn't accept it, even tough I suggested to SMS her once a day.
'Nowadays it's too dangerous, travelling alone...you could hear all the stories about people who were found dead/lost/terror...you should stop travelling alone !'.
After each '...
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15-Dec-2009 21:10
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newbie09 »
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23-Dec-2009 19:34
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mrszhao »
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Okay this is quite mindless but a bit of fun. A colleague and I were having a discussion the other day about travelling and she was telling me about a friend who was a healthy size but while travelling went to one beach where she felt like a beached whale then travelled to another place where she felt positively svelte and glamourous.
Has anyone had this experience? Have you ever travelled somewhere and felt so totally out of place one minute either in a positive or negative way, and then visited another place and felt a completely different way in comparision.
For example I visited a mall on the Gold Coast recently....obviously a boutique place and felt I definitely was underdressed and needed more makeup. I went to another one down the road and felt quite normal.
As I said mindless but a bit of fun.
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05-Dec-2009 10:07
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Kerouac2 »
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18-Dec-2009 17:24
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Kerouac2 »
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Actually, I have been to Jack Kerouac's tomb in Lowell, Massachusetts, but today I just went to the grave of an anonymous friend in a completely alien place.
And yet I live only about 20 km from there.
Take a look and see.
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08-Nov-2009 21:29
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gawkabout »
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19-Dec-2009 12:40
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JoeToo »
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I'm not a stuff accumulator, I don't think. But;
Do you remember a useful souveneer or gizmo, that you wish you'd bought on an earlier trip?
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06-Nov-2009 09:15
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19-Nov-2009 07:36
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tonya001 »
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I just went into my local shop tonight and asked if they knew what guy fawkes day meant. The turkish guy didn,t, he has been here 15 years and couldn,t be bothered to find out. The other guy from India has been here 30 years and didn,t have a clue what it meant. I know what diwali is, i know what ramadan is, i know what the chinese new year is, i know what Eid is.
Why can,t they be fucked to at least know what my culture is?
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29-Sep-2009 19:14
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jasper007 »
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11-Dec-2009 20:29
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cheminement »
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As I get older I find I stick out more with other travellers, do other people find this? I travelled around Australia and stayed in backpackers and all the other people seemed really young, I am 34 so getting on a bit, and felt i did not fit in anymore.
Are there places where the age difference doesn't show up so much? I am off to Latin america soon, will i stick out there?
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21-Sep-2009 04:21
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tonya001 »
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16-Nov-2009 09:31
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tonya001 »
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What is your favourite and least favourite branch on LP - and why?
I like GS a lot - intelligent content (for the most part); and a variety of posters who don't care who posts.
I dislike YC - idiots who struggle to write their own shite.
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16-Sep-2009 06:46
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tonya001 »
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02-Oct-2009 04:06
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gawkabout »
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...the mods will use our beloved LaST as a dumping ground for stuff that would not see the light of day in why see.
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16-Sep-2009 06:17
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tonya001 »
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20-Dec-2009 01:52
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scgorm »
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And is this a British, European or world-wide view? (I suspect the first.)
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14-Sep-2009 13:56
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dave80 »
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20-Sep-2009 19:55
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jasmine22 »
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i hope you enjoy this story :
" So we are here in Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon,
in the hot, sticky southern section of the country.
Robin finished a month-long course for teaching and
will find work soon. They are desperate for English teachers....
http://travel.latimes.com/articles/la-tr-vietnam13-2009sep13?content=e+Gucci+bags+and+kitschy+souvenirs.&single_page=y#show
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07-Sep-2009 07:43
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Kerouac2 »
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07-Nov-2009 00:35
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VinnyD »
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Frankly, their distress casts a pall over my own life, especially when there is nothing I can really do.
I was watching the Afghan refugees in Paris this morning. What is it like to leave home at age 15 and travel 3000 km to a place that doesn't want you and where you don't speak the language?
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01-Sep-2009 01:29
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sm145 »
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25-Nov-2009 19:43
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Kuri »
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has anyone noticed that some people post thousands of times but never really say anything? one individual comes to mind who has thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of replies (rarely posts) but usually keeps the replies to three to five words w/o really relaying anything useful. it just seems that posters like that just want to pad their post/reply total for the sake of padding it. has this happened to anyone and what do you think?
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28-Aug-2009 23:05
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PerArdua »
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23-Oct-2009 19:48
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aarbain »
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In the classic movie Pulp Fiction there's a line that goes as follows:
"You know what the funniest thing about Europe is? It's the little differences. I mean, they got the same shit over there that we got here, but it's just – it's just there it's a little different."
So what are the 'little differences' that you've encountered on your travels that you found fascinating, amusing, hilarious, puzzling, bizzare? I'll get started with a couple:
1. South African toilets - Without exception they were always spotlessly clean and in perfect working order. The strange thing was that they were rarely on the premises. When you ask a waiter where the toilet was you were invariably handed a key (with enormous key tag) and given directions that would take you out the door, down the street, up a flight a stairs and down a hallway. For us it turned into a silly game where we would wager w...
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27-Aug-2009 18:11
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8speedsteve »
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05-Sep-2009 03:17
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guywhoeats »
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"Old forms of identity and belonging around states and localities can be seen as a way of resisting positive changes- holding no to these can provoke conflicts with newcomers and involve attempts to defend privilege."
Nationalism, isent it time we gave up on it?
Posted By: VenessaP -- 24-Dec-2009 18:13
Posted By: VenessaP -- 09-Dec-2009 17:01
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