Gloucester – from Football to Preachers – Gloucester, England, United Kingdom
Jump to the full entry & travel map Gloucester, England, United Kingdom I arrived on the Sunday afternoon, after being subjugated to hours of boring people and their conversations on a National Express Coach when coming into Gloucester . I was dropped off at pretty much the city centre, and given that it was isn’t a particularly big place at all it’s easy just to walk from one side of the town to the other in a matter of minutes
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Gloucester – from Football to Preachers – Gloucester, England, United Kingdom
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Jump to the full entry & travel map Warsaw, Central Poland, Poland Having not booked any accommodation for Warsaw, we followed Rob to the Oki Doki Hostel – some 15 minutes walk from Warszawa Centralna. Here we were fortunate to find lodgings and were housed in the gazetka dorm, so named because the entire dormitory was lined with old Polish newspaper cuttings. After a quick change we headed out in search of drink (common theme emerging).
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Held captive on a Polish train… – Warsaw, Central Poland, Poland
Jump to the full entry & travel map Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States The lack of decent summer weather in the Pittsburgh PA area, and the lack of any vacation for years is driving us to the beach. We only have a few days off to work with due to using all of this years vacation time on family illness issues. It has been a rough year for hubby, Mike, so he really needs a few days away with some sun and some surf. The plan is to go to Virginia Beach, VA. It is close, so we can drive, and small, so we don’t have to do a lot of trip planning, or decisions were to stay. We are also going to stop in Williamsburg for a day or two to add a little history to our little excursion. I hope to share some tips about where to stay and where to eat at these small vacation spots. I will post some photos, and update what we do (which hopefully won’t be much)
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Preplanning Our Little Virginia Beach Trip… – Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States
Jump to the full entry & travel map Hue, Vietnam The tour crossing Hue city, Dmz & home stay, A Luoi (Ho Chi Minh trail)-Bach Ma, Hoi An- Hai Van pass, Cham museum, Marble Mountain, My Son holy land…7 days along the Road, you will visit the most famous cultural and natural sites of Vietnam. This road is rich in natural history and culture and as such has tremendous long –term potential for the development of road tourism throughout the Indochina region. More tours in Hue , DMZ and central land >>> Day 1 : Welcome to Hue ( D ) Welcome to Hue, pick pax up at Phu Bai air port or Hue train station then transfer to Hotel
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Hue Handicaft – Dmz& Home stay – Hue, Vietnam
Jump to the full entry & travel map Puerto Montt, CL.09, Chile I left Parral 4 days ago and a bus headed south to Puerto Montt. The journey started early in the morning at 8:00am, the sky dark with residue of night. For miles I come in and out of consciousness, waking only for brief seconds, to find that I was in a new city. Eliana has decided to be my companion on this trek to new adventures and possibilities. After the incident of my over sleeping on the bus, I am not allowed to travel alone anymore. She probably thinks I will oversleep again and wake up in Antarctica. I can just see me lost, walking around Antarctica with my black hooded coat. The headlines would read, “Scientist discover new breed of penguin in Antarctica. Subject is a friendly female, but refuses to eat raw fish. She prefers it deep fried in Maize (cornmeal), Picante (hot sauce) with something called Lite Bread. More information is discovered everyday about the peculiar and entertaining species.” It begins to rain and watch hundreds of rain drops dance on my window. The Chilean Landscape pass by changing from urban to rural farmland. Miles of trees brilliant and green; leaves heavy with rain, brick red earth is evidence of the fertility and life. Even on a rainy day, against a somber sky the air is brimming with the glare of opportunity. I sit in contented anticipation letting the day unfold in its own time. Fourteen hours later we arrive and find the hotel ( Hotel Don Luis) where I will be staying. It is very modern and best of all it has central heating and ice and cold of the north melts away like a dream. The next day was sunny and clear, and Eliana, Karen, Lisa, Fransisco (the other teachers that will be teaching with me in Puerto Montt) and I decide to explore the city. We walk toward the little town of Angelmo. I street was lined with Merchants selling everything from jewelry, and socks. We continue to walk sandwiched by the traffic crammed street on our right and the ocean on our left. We are greeted by a lady that asked if we wanted to take a 30 minute boat ride around the island. For only $2,000 pesos ($4 USD) it was worth the time and the money. We set sail in a tiny little boat raggedy motorboat. The smell of the ocean and the sound of seagulls made the not a mere ride around an island, but a High Sea Adventure. The captain of the small vessel was a spry jovial old barnacle that moved about the boat effortlessly, rocking the boat repeatedly giving all the passengers a stir. She rows the boat out to deep water and for a second I thought she was going to row us around the island. I thought, “If this lady can row us around the island in 30 minutes then she is one tough old bird.’’ Before the thought could get out of my head she starts the engine and I breathed a sigh of relief.
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Puerto Montt – Puerto Montt, CL.09, Chile
Jump to the full entry & travel map Mazatlan, Pacific Coast, Mexico The coastline of Mazatlan is amazing. Jagged rocks massively enclave the the shorelines. Unlike the sand from back home, the sand here is white beautifully match with the green and blue tint of the ocean. Just like back home, you have youngster skating on the pavement, runners pounding the road with hair en-clasped back and music in the ears. Euphoric lovers cascade the sand, hands in hands professing eternal notions-no guessing, no doubt. If I didn’t know, I would have guess this is Santa Monica, CA. Rich in it history-yet one can tell that 99 percent of everything in Mazatlan are created for tourists. We walked to the golden zone, and stepped into various gift stores-in one i saw a little boy about nine carving a wooden toy car. I have never seen a kid so focus, so talented…if given the right opportunity what an extraordinary man he would become. I love traveling because of this-it put things in perspective. It allow you learning opportunities, it digs deep, confront you with uncomfortable feelings, and make you sit with it. Even amidst my sad disposition there is something about the boy that touched me in a place that is so personal…like i have known him all my life?
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tourists catering – Mazatlan, Pacific Coast, Mexico
TEL AVIV.- Andy Warhol’s Factory (New York, 1963-1983) was one of the most famous centers of creativity in the history of contemporary art. The exhibition presents portraits of Warhol and some of his associates, taken at the Factory by Billy Name, Gerard Malanga, Carl Fischer and Curtis Knapp. Continued here: Celebrity Portraits from the Andy Warhol Factory on View at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art (Art Daily)
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Celebrity Portraits from the Andy Warhol Factory on View at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art (Art Daily)
Jump to the full entry & travel map Buenos Aires, Capital Federal District, Argentina The big news here in BA is that the first democratically elected president after the Dirty War, Raul Alfonsin, died last night in his home on Avenida Santa Fe, in Recoleta, after a long battle with lung cancer. What makes this particularly interesting is that my friends and I were walking along Santa Fe last night, surprised to see a big crowd outside a posh apartment building, with TV crews and cameras everywhere in sight and traffic blocked off. I don´t know any of his accomplishments during his term as president, but it was strange and cool to be a witness to this piece of Argentine history…
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Ciao, BA – Buenos Aires, Capital Federal District, Argentina
Jump to the full entry & travel map Montevideo, Uruguay Woke up today in another country. Took another overnight bus – this time from Retiro in BA to Montevideo, Uruguay. The challenge at Retiro was something else that will be described here soon in more detail. The most eventful part of the bus ride was when we stopped all of a sudden and wondered why. It turns out that we were at the border, and the bus attendant collected all of our passports to take to the customs/immigration people (sounds kind of sketchy now that I write this, but at the time, I had just woken up from sleep and didn´t realize exactly what was going on). He returned a few minutes later with all our passports in hand, and new stamps in them…and then I fell back asleep. Uruguay is the smallest Spanish-speaking country in South America, sandwiched in between Argentina and Brazil. Like its larger neighbours, the country has a rich history in fútbol and was the first to win the World Cup. The capital, Montevideo, is like a much smaller version of Buenos Aires (with its own uniqueness), one that is quieter and more relaxed, on the other side of the Rio de la Plata… We´re staying in the Ciudad Vieja , or Old City, surrounded by ocean on three sides. It’s just under a half hour bus ride from the bus terminal. Most of the city’s sites are within walkable distance, the closest being the port, the Museo del Carnaval , and Mercado del Puerto , a market where you can get tons of meat grilled in front of you..
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Another day, another country – Montevideo, Uruguay
Here you have some comments about the course for Italian language teacher held in Milan from June 15th to July 26th. After reading them, if you want to follow their suggestions, we remember the next Italian language preparation course for teachers starting dates: Milan : from 21 September to 02 October Florence : from 19 to 30 October Rome : from 05 to 16 October (more…)
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Jump to the full entry & travel map Kathmandu, Nepal Thank you all so much for your comments and emails, friends and fam! I love them, and it makes me feel like I’m not traveling alone, but with all of you. Also, I’m glad that you find something informative or entertaining in my random thoughts about Nepal… In response, however, I want to make sure that I’m conveying Nepal in an honest way. To clarify: being here is not like a jail sentence, or like a Catholic Charities commercial. In fact, I think Kathmandu and I have come to certain peace recently… Yes, there are the challenges and discomforts endemic to traveling in any under-developed country (waiting 10 years to see a bank teller, stepping on mangy dogs, brushing teeth with bottled water), and there are the unpleasantries associated with urban life (noise, crowds, smog), and of course, there are some peculiarities distinctly Kathmandu (hiding your sunglasses from monkeys). But when I think of Nepal as an integrated whole, the negatives are a pinprick on the screen. At first, they were all I could see. Now, I’ve internalized them to point where I can differentiate between what is Nepal, and what is just part of this weird, mid-development transition happening in Kathmandu. Nepal is how in July, women wear armfuls of green bangles and henna their hands so that their husbands may live long lives. Development is stepping in trash on the street. Development is my power going out 5 times a day. Nepal is families bringing bowls of food to the 10-year old monks in the monastery. Nepal is neighborhood gatherings at the temple courtyard every Saturday to cook dhal baat and play cricket. Essentially, almost all the faults and troubles I find here are not with Nepali culture, people, or this beautiful, spiritual geography; they are symptoms of growth that I can tell are particular to this moment in Nepal’s history. What can you expect in an un-colonized nation that had never known of the globalized world until a plane landed here in 1950? Nepal is desperately playing catch-up, grasping in a million different directions at once and generally making a sloppy mess in the interim. This is temporary, though. What will endure (I hope) are the distinct characteristics of ancient Nepali culture and mountain life that have always drawn visitors here. And in the meantime, before it disappears—which it assuredly will, in time—visitors who are willing to tolerate the inconveniences of Kathmandu-mid-development can glimpse, in the backstreets, medieval life still untouched by the long arm of globalization. This is truly rare, and truly spectacular. As a final note on this point, saying Kathmandu represents all of Nepal is like saying New York City represents all of the US. I haven’t yet had the opportunity to travel to the backcountry, but there is an entire nation outside of this valley with jungles, plains, tropics, alpine peaks, tigers, elephants, rice paddies, hundreds of languages and whole new layers to this culture I haven’t yet experienced…. but hopefully will. In the meantime, as I’ve said before, there are comforts to be found in Kathmandu and life isn’t all that bad. Tonight, for instance, I ate spinach pasta and drank a cappuccino while surfing the web in a local café. All in all, I think it’s easier to travel here than St.
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Finding the Middle Way – Kathmandu, Nepal
Digital Stigmergic Collaboration : The Digitized Heart Economic Perspectives from Kansas City: BerkShares, Buckaroos, and Bear Dollars: What Makes a Local Currency Tick? Crowdsourcing, Incentive, and Value | Open Parenthesis In this video, Jeff Howe, a contributing editor at Wired and the author of Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd is Driving the Future of Business, presents during a Berkman Center Luncheon on some of the key issues around the concept, including: * What motivates the contributors in crowdsourced efforts
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Jump to the full entry & travel map Galway, Western Ireland, Ireland The morning lecture was given by an archeologist. I learned all about Pre-Historical Ireland. I’m finally getting a better picture and understanding as to what life was like during each of the significant periods in history. The afternoon lecture discussed the Great Famine and Emigration in Ireland. It was the first time I could fully understand just exactly what the potato famine was and why/how it so severely impacted the country. Our afternoon presenter talked to us about the Early Childhood Learning experience. It’s refreshing to see that early intervention is a big push over here. The majority of the children attend some form of school by the age of three. The rest of the day and even into the evening was committed to writing and research. What a L-O-N-G day!!! I left the campus at 10:15, ran into the little convenient store near the dorm and purchased a packet of “add water and microwave” pesto noodles. I didn’t have anything else back at the dorm and I was sick of peanut butter. After eating while Skyping with Terry, I returned to my paper. Luckily they had given us an extension since the internet was almost non-existing for a few days and the printers being down. I had one more day to work on it.
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Research Paper-Crunch time! – Galway, Western Ireland, Ireland
Jump to the full entry & travel map Tokyo, Japan How did we decide to go to Japan? I think it’s a good question as we both (especially me) are planning to travel a longer time in Asia and the money we spent in Japan in three weeks would have allowed us even a few months in the cheapest countries in South-East Asia or for example in India. However, as I had studied in China and Aapo in South Korea, both having also visited each other, we both agreed that it would be a good time to visit the third giant of the region, comparing and getting better understanding of what North East Asia is about
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Jump to the full entry & travel map Dawson City, Yukon, Canada Monday, July 20 – Dawson City, YT – Day 2 Since our group was scheduled to carpool to town at 9:30 this morning, I got out of bed around 8:30. Art told me that he was not going anywhere. He looked terrible. Besides the pain that he’s been experiencing for days, he now has alternating chills and sweats. I intended to crawl back in and stay with him rather than meet everyone else, but he reminded me that we usually take John and Martha with us and that if I didn’t go, they might not have a ride. So I got ready for the day. About 15 minutes before departure, he decided to get dressed and make a valiant effort to grin and bear it.
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Dawson City, Yukon, Canada – Dawson City, Yukon, Canada
At the occasion of the reception of an award for life-time achievement by the U.S. Society for Ecological Economics, Herman Daly recaps the arguments against perpetual growth: “We have many problems (poverty, unemployment, environmental destruction, budget deficit, trade deficit, bailouts, bankruptcy, foreclosures, etc.), but apparently only one solution: economic growth, or as the pundits now like to say, “to grow the economy”– as if it were a potted plant with healing leaves, like aloe vera or marijuana
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Herman Daly on the darkness of growth
Spain, with its myriad of influences and epic history, is a country with a diverse gamut of sights and sounds to offer its 45 million tourists who visit every year. An area where this can be seen in particular is in its museums and galleries, a rich history of art and culture has left Spain a huge legacy in this department with names such as Dali, Picasso and Miro leading the list: Guggenheim, Bilbao: Now one of the most easily recognised buildings in Europe, the Guggenheim in Bil Go here to see the original: Top four city museums in Spain
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Jump to the full entry & travel map Strasburg, Colorado, United States Coming from a farm community where farms are described in terms of one hundred acre blocks and are usually homesteads with original settlement houses intact, the farms of the Midwest are imposing. In this area they talk about sections of land and of thousands of acres of crop to be harvested. Many of the farmers live in or near a small community that serves as the economic center for the region. The town is usually associated with a local grain elevator and sits near the rail line. The towns will usually have a school, a hardware store, a machinery dealer, a bank, a newspaper, and if they are lucky, an assortment of medical and professional offices. The land registry office seems to be a big part of many communities. Some will have local museums that guard the culture and history of the town and county. Of course they all have a local diner where the locals gather for coffee, just like in the movies. The ‘main street’ is often at right angles to a highway or major road that runs parallel to the rail tracks. larger towns will have a highway strip where you will find a service station or two, maybe a chain restaurant, and other service industries. The private houses are on streets behind the main street and, unless close enough to a major center to encourage commuters, are a mix of early 20th century and post World War II architecture. All have unique characteristics, put patterns of existence are starting to appear. The people are friendly and all, not just the farmers, anxiously await the fulfillment of a successful harvest. The harvest crews are a boon to many local businesses struggling to survive and help to ensure that the local community has resources to carry them through the winter into another cropping season. As you move away from town, you first pass a few farms with a home and outbuildings to service the machinery of the operation. There may be some grain bins and other sheds. A little further out you may see a grouping of trees with a lone silo standing sentinel over a former homestead, all buildings having disappeared. If you are lucky you may spot the remains of an old house, barn or even a church or a school house. Then you find yourself noting that trees are becoming fewer and fewer and at times you can look in all directions and see nothing but wheat fields. As I mentioned earlier, some fields may hold this years crop, others have been fallow and are awaiting September planting for next years crop. The land is more rolling in Colorado than in the part of Kansas and Oklahoma that we have seen, but you can still see for miles. You can watch a storm build and dissipate before the weather front even comes close to you. Antelope are beautiful animals that are often seen grazing in small herds. Prairie dogs abound. Rattlesnakes are common. Our campground has some very friendly rabbits!
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I’m Feeling Mellow – Some More Observations – Strasburg, Colorado, United States
As a preview of his research into the history of artist-run spaces in Philadelphia, curator Richard Torchia, head of the Arcadia University art gallery, showed slides and dredged up some not so recent history for a crowd of more than 100 eager collectivistas and collectivistos at Vox Populi . Arcadia curator Richard Torchia preparing to speak at Vox Populi last week. Andrew Suggs, Vox Populi executive director, is on the left.
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SRO crowd gets a history lesson at Vox