Re-blog Saturday – Dubai or no Dubai?

Hi everyone. I've decided to do some reblogging of a Saturday. I'm going back in time and pulling out interesting old posts from my old blog back before I publicised or anything like that (so they haven't been read by many people!) It's interesting as an exercise and serves as a bit of a time …

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The Mighty Little Puppet Show at The Melbourne International Comedy Festival

So, are you in town – Melbourne Town – over Easter? From the 23rd of March through to the 17th of April Melbourne hosts one of the world’s best comedy festivals with acts from all over the globe. A good friend of mine and friend to the blog and podcast, Rob Lloyd has an extremely …

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First Taste – Ho Chi Minh City

The old capital of Vietnam was my first taste of this amazing country back in 2011, and it proved to be a great place to visit. I only spent four or five days in the former Saigon, but it was a great introduction to a country I was pretty excited about visiting for the first …

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Travel Bloggers – Frank from The Travels of Bbqboy and Spanky

Today's blogger is Frank from the Travels of Bbqboy and Spanky. Frank has been travelling for quite some time now and has tried short-term living in various places including Budapest in Hungary, Brasov in Romania and South Africa's Cape Town. His posts are always detailed and very well thought out, often asking the reader to …

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Remembering the Tsunami

It was now five years ago that the Great Tohoku Earthquake occurred causing the giant tsunami together destroying houses, buildings, land and lives in Northern Honshu (and particularly Tohoku). Readers of my blog may recall that I spent two years in Ichinoseki, in Tohoku, teaching English and living there. But that was 2012 – 2014, …

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