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Travel Diaries #39 - Hanoi to Saigon
Part 1: Around the middle of my time in Vietnam, I left Hanoi to drive to Ho Chi Minh City by motorbike. I was unsure of what I was looking for, only I…
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Travel Diaries #38 - Cổ Loa
Teaching English in Vietnam - on the threshold between the city and the countryside, between the known and the unknown, between all that can be…
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Travel Diaries #22 - Café
There's no better place to sit around and write than in a cafe, and no better place for cafes than Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam
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Travel Diaries #38 - Cổ Loa
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Travel is Pointless
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Travel Diaries #33 - One Night in San Francisco
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A First Note on Travel and Mimetic Desire
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Where is Home?
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Where is Home?
All journeys must end, and at some point we all have to return home. Though do we really know where that is?
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Travel Diaries #45 - Việt Nam Vô Địch
All dreams must die, and we all have to go home at some stage. But what better way to go out than watching your adopted country take part in the final…
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Prologue
Travel is not all about forcing us to face the parts of ourselves we've been avoiding - there is great beauty too in the world, and it is our job to go…
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Epilogue
Where do you end up when you've nowhere left to go?
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Travel Diaries #44 - Sài Gòn
Comparison is the thief of joy, and take care when you travel to always be grateful for home
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Travel Diaries #43 - Hanoi to Saigon [part 5]
I reach the end of my journey, before I reach my destination
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Travel Diaries #42 - Hanoi to Saigon [part 4]
I suppose part of any trip is getting to know yourself as much as where you're travelling through, and by now I know what I want: I want to go to the…
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