December 3, 2018
Flying to the Wild South
The Adrenaline Rush Enhances the Beauty of the Landscape Below on a Flight over Tasmania I became used to the humming of the engines just as the mountain, city and bridge…
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November 14, 2018
Thirty Million Bats in Battambang, Cambodia
Could there really be thirty million bats leaving the Phnom Sampeou Mountain in Battambang, Cambodia every night? A group of six friends travelling together, we arrived in Battambang’s city centre,…
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November 14, 2018
In the Footsteps of Friedrich Nietzsche
One writer attempts to reconcile the serene landscape of Switzerland's Sils-Maria with the work of its most controversial former resident. In the canton of Graubünden, Switzerland, in the area known…
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November 13, 2018
Nimrah the Baker
Parsi baking culture survives in the heart of India, where Nimrah and his staff of 70 pump out tens of thousands of cookies a day. Our correspondent sampled a few.…
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November 6, 2018
Schloss Neuschwanstein Survival
A Stroll Through the Mountainous Bavarian Countryside Towards Schloss Neuschwanstein - the Castle That Inspired Disney - Proved More Daring Than This Writer Had Anticipated! It was a beautiful, bright, crisp…
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November 2, 2018
Shantha the Rasta
Over many glasses of Arrack, a local coconut based spirit, Thomas Heaton hears a firsthand account of how the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami is still affecting lives on Sri Lanka's coast. …
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October 26, 2018
Frost and Familiarity – Impressions of Zagreb
I sat on the train gazing up at the large grey pillows filling the sky, feeling small and insignificant, with still a few hours to go. I had my worldly…
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October 18, 2018
New York – A City of Functional Chaos
An Australian Traveler Encounters Everything that Is New York City The millionth yellow cab tooted its horn and my brain throbbed ominously, as if moments from imploding. We had landed…
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October 16, 2018
Some Corner of a Foreign Field
The Story of Five New Zealand POW’s Buried in Poznan, Poland A New Zealand expat in Poznan discovers the story of five countrymen buried far from home. First published in…
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August 24, 2018
In Search of My Family’s Jewish History in Lublin, Poland
Walking across the border from Slovakia into Poland felt like crossing into Narnia. The bridge that connects the two countries was covered in snow, surrounded by white mountains and frost…
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