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13. Morocco (Fez)
13. Morocco (Fez) Dark, narrow, twisting, threatening. Alleyways in the old town. Mules push past improbably. I stumble sideways under another archway. Nostrils prickle, assaulted by the stench of the...
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14. USA
14. USA A cruel wind whipping papers and dust from the night before against my legs. Old lady shuffling past. A yell! Fit young man sprints ahead, her handbag clutched under his arm. Seconds later, a...
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17. Iceland (near the Vatnajokull Glacier)
17. Iceland (near the Vatnajokull Glacier) When the world was just begun, the earth shifting and heaving, steaming and bubbling, untrodden and newborn. Verdant Green. Vast and sweeping landscapes....
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20. Bangladesh
20. Bangladesh It’s 50°C and temperatures are rising. Hidden beneath the colourful, tattered veils of conservative Chittagong, the modest matrons as young as eighteen shelter chastely from prying male...
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22. Belgium (Liege)
22. Belgium (Liege) Hurting blue autumnal skies, crisp above the waterways surrounding Liege. So peaceful, as my bicycle bumps along their banks. But still the distant echoes of bloody world war which...
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24. India (The Taj Mahal)
24. India (The Taj Mahal) Blinding heat ricocheting off the pristine marble of the Taj. My bare feet dance across the white-hot path as if walking across coals. Devastated to learn that the fabled love...
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32. Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia, 1990)
Košice Town Square. Safety pinned and superglued, the sneering punk sprawls his scrawny self beside me on the bench, radiating a loose-limbed exuberance at odds with his steel capped boots. An outpost...
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34. Austria
34. Austria Clickety Clack Orderly Austria flashes past. Suffocatingly precise. Oh for some fresh air. I pry a reluctant window open just a fraction. In an apparently personal affront to the severe...
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36. Thailand (Chiang Mai)
36. Thailand (Chiang Mai) Our noses wrinkle in disgust at the pong of the returning hill-trekkers, reeking with a week’s unwashed grime. Happily, we are entirely oblivious to our own odorous stink a...
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41. New Zealand
OK, so this week, you have a choice of two ’50 words’ – sometimes I write more than one, because of course there are many indelible ‘moments’ when travelling, and this week I couldn’t decide what mood...
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