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Entries Tagged as 'Australia'

Packing, the least fun part of travelling…

August 6th, 2007 · Comments Off

Started today as a means of taking a break from the second paper. I realized I was missing 1) a pair of gray dress pants that I wanted to wear for the hen’s night 2) a peasant blouse and 3) my jeans. Looked around my room and in the basement, no dice. Then I see [...]

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Tags: Australia · Packing

Wild Releases: Australia

July 15th, 2007 · 1 Comment

….books, not animals. We’re not talking zoo breaks here. Just before leaving Australia at the end of 2005 I decided to track the books I’d wild released. I was curious to know how many there were, and how many, if any, had been caught. The result was rather messy, a huge file, and one I [...]

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Tags: Australia · BookCrossing

First Encounter

April 12th, 2007 · Comments Off

First encounter with a place, as with love, is one you never forget. As I’ve alluded to in the past, for me, it’s Spain. Even today, almost five years since my first return trip to Spain in October 2002, I can’t forget the feeling of seeing the same statues at Atocha and the same vendors [...]

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Tags: Australia · Japan · Madrid · NYU: Masters · Travel & Tourism

Tourist/Traveler: Redux

April 11th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Sightseeing can’t compete with miracle of everyday lives, it really can’t. That’s some of what I tried to get across in my previous post on the topic of tourism v. travel.  The Lost Globe cautions against the anti-tourist He misses the worlds best attractions because there are to many tourists there and the location has lost [...]

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Tags: Alternative Travel · Australia · Madrid · Spain · Sydney · Travel & Tourism