"Keep the Cat Free"

22.05.2012

FELIX

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  • Editors: Christopher Richardson and Dushiyanthi Arumuganesan
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Stingy travelling git

Irony simply cannot be expressed in a better way: I was attempting to explain the concept of budget travelling to a PR guy representing Dubai Tourism.   In the previous week I ...
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  • Thursday November 18, 2010

When travelling turns trippy

Tightly nestled among the happy snaps and hilarious anecdotes lie the problems you’re bound to run into while on the road. For the sake of saving your relatives a heart ...
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  • Thursday November 18, 2010

Lest we forget to find a balance

With Remembrance Day just behind us it seems appropriate to draw in some of the more sombre elements of travel destinations. As a traveller you often confront the tensions of ...
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  • Thursday November 11, 2010

An unforgettable hitchhiking debut

I’ve always put travelling as my passion under the interests section of my CV. Name any European country and all I can think is ‘been there, done that’. But what ...
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  • Thursday November 4, 2010

It scared me shitless

A couple of things you can never forget about a bungy jump: the expression of your co-conspirators’ faces, and the fateful countdown that mount to your eventual plunge.   Conspirators because you and ...
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  • Thursday October 28, 2010

Drifting through South Central ’Nam

I was already well acquainted with Vietnam’s somewhat inconvenient electricity shortages and Facebook firewall (hey, who needs an international social networking site when you’ve got access to ‘go.vn’, where the ...
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  • Thursday October 28, 2010

One tasty-looking trek

New Zealand. For a land-of-the-long-white-cloud the size of United Kingdom, which secludes itself in the south-eastern corner of the world map, and houses a population of sheep outnumbering that of ...
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My Northern Borneo Jamboree

I am a huge fan of mainland Malaysia, what with its plethora of creole cuisines and party people, but its true face lies on Sabah in Malaysian Borneo. As soon ...
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  • Thursday October 21, 2010

Trekking in the Alps

Each year a group of intrepid Fellwanderers leave the UK to undertake an ambitious two week trek overseas.  This year was no different. The chosen trek was the breathtaking Tour ...
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  • Thursday October 14, 2010

Tourism held hostage?

Despite being seven hundred miles away from the scene of the hostage situation, I felt trapped.   The city of Hong Kong reached a state of media gridlock as every TV channel ...
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  • Thursday October 14, 2010