Or a Vanuatu rugby kit. That would do nicely as well. Heck, I’d even accept a Dominica cricket shirt if I could get hold of one.
Travellers’ collections
I should perhaps explain a little here. A lot of travellers collect things from their travels. Some go for postcards, others like to get stamps, others go for coins. [...]
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Trivia time
As you may have noticed, I’m not averse to the odd bit of trivia. That doesn’t make me a loser. It makes me very cool indeed.
Christmas quiz
And as I’m far too stingy and Scrooge-like to hand out proper presents to the readers of this blog, I thought I’d create a Christmas quiz for [...]
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Useful travel gear
I’m currently researching a story about travel gear and clothing, and it has got me thinking about how useless so many so-called travel products are. Many of them have so many bells and whistles but are largely designed for mountaineers or Antarctic explorers rather than members of the general public.
Multi-language translators?
Another problem is [...]
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This one is always trotted out whenever the writer wishes to describe an area that could do with a lick of paint/ is a bit backward. And, yes, I’ve used it myself.
On a cliché level, it’s not the most obnoxious one out there, but it’s a shoddy simile. How can you compare a place to [...]
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Cheap beer in supermarkets?
As I was writing my post on British pub closures, I touched upon one of the most commonly cited reasons for pubs going to the wall. Supermarkets often take the blame for a change in British drinking culture. The theory goes that by offering drinks at considerably cheaper prices than pubs, the [...]
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52 pub closures every week
If you believed everything you read, then you’d probably be under the impression that the British pub is going the way of the dodo. According to the British Beer and Pub Association, 52 pubs are closing down every week. Read the media reports, and it’s a national tragedy. Smoking bans, cheap [...]
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Aside from winning the Grumpy Traveller award for the world’s most staggeringly obvious headline, this BBC story officially kills swine flu off as a bogeyman.
It seems as though some people are arranging parties to enable them to catch swine flu before it mutates into something last seen on 28 Weeks Later.
This, to me, is the [...]
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