If you’re looking at the prospect of a 13 hour train ride, always be dubious of the ticket that cost a mere 100 RMB. For that price, the journey is guaranteed to be an uncomfortable...
Fantasea is one of the better tourist attractions to see while vacationing in Phuket (see a fire long-exposure picture from a previous entry). If you’re looking for another tourist attraction besides Fantasea, the Simon Cabaret...
Silicon Cape is a new event in South Africa started by investors and entrepreneurs who have spent time in Silicon Valley.
More than an event, it's a brand, an idea that everyone could 'rally around' in...
Women from Canada and from the USA have joined me this week to tour Provence. Provence is known for its breath-taking sceneries, its historical hilltop villages and its art. We saw all that, but its...
I’m taking the San Francisco Food Bank’s Hunger Challenge – trying to feed my husband (the Bottomless Pit) and myself for just $4 each per day. And, newsflash! Thanks to thousands who twittered these hunger...
Each year, in the UK, at least 75,000 youngsters experience homelessness. One in three attempt suicide - sometimes successfully. And one in seven are physically or sexually assaulted.
Tomorrow, folks in England will be joining people...
We spent two weeks in Denmark in August 2009. One week in Copenhagen, the rightly named Paris of the North, and then a week visiting the Lake District around Silkeborg and the Odden peninsula.
Why go?
Denmark...
The 11-hour overnight bus ride into Shenzhen was our last memory of China. Different from the trains in several ways, and a nice transition between China and Hong Kong.
Sleeper bus to Shenzhen
Not surprisingly, the...
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