Tuesday, 28 March 2023
quote [ In 1976, Suzanne Heywood?s father decided to take the family on a three-year sailing ?adventure? ? and then just kept going. It was a journey into fear, isolation and danger ? ]
I feel like I could be Captain Cook
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Tuesday, 14 March 2023
quote [ I've made my trip to China's biggest traditional communal home - Fujian Tulou?
Tulou has been the inspiration of many famous movies, such as Mulan, big fish and begonia, kongfu panda, etc. In reality, they are the traditional home of Hakka people, housing up to 800 people! Nowadays few people live in Tulou because of a lack of modern facilities, but they are still a masterpiece of architecture! Luckily, I have met a very hospitable Hakka lady who showed me the real life inside the Tulou! ] Some old school Chinese architecture. Pretty interesting watch.
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Monday, 6 March 2023
quote [ Walk with us, as we follow ancient trails where the living once carried the dead. We?ll be traversing Europe?s rural landscapes via a network of so-called ?corpse roads?, occasionally marked with crucifixes and low stone benches, cutting across windswept hills, overgrown pastures, gushing rivers and rocky brooks. ]
The road paved with corpses leads to the gate
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Saturday, 18 February 2023
quote [ The thing is, the actual merchants along Skillman? They didn?t believe it. When Coburn spoke to them and described what he?d found, only a few store owners admitted the lanes had helped. ]
Maan, it's so complicated. Pasted in extended.
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Wednesday, 1 February 2023
quote [ An obituary for one of my favourite buildings. ]
Lord help us 'fore our days end, like a hotel
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Saturday, 28 January 2023
quote [ Time Magazine called the prison ?the bloodiest 47 acres in America.? ]
Straight from the state penitentiary
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Friday, 27 January 2023
quote [ Would your city spend $65 million for this? ]
That's a lot of freaking bikes. I wonder what it's like to live somewhere with a decent infrastructure.
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Tuesday, 24 January 2023
quote [ The history of Belleville, the Parisian neighbourhood where legendary French singer Edith Piaf lived and called home, is a dazzling mix of folklore and fact, like all the best places to visit. ]
Looking out on a Belleville crowd
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Wednesday, 4 January 2023
quote [ The local Epiphany celebration of Grado, Italy, is inspired by a mysterious band of 16th-century pirates. ]
all hail, witch of the sea
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Sunday, 18 December 2022
quote [ Exploring a hidden folly in rural Wiltshire. ]
Like a Hobbit house doors are round
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