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A Time for Travel Writing: April 2010
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A Time for Travel Writing. Sian Dhu, uninspired writer, embarks on a trek across three continents in the hope of getting her creative juices flowing. Friday, April 2, 2010. Aussies behold and obey my words of wisdom: from this point forth think twice before calling the English 'Whinging Poms'! There is a tendency for the Her Majesty's subjects to have the occasional whine, but stay the accusations! One Pom explained away their moans by suggesting. Complaint is the highest form of culture",. Yes, I am.
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A Time for Travel Writing: December 2009
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A Time for Travel Writing. Sian Dhu, uninspired writer, embarks on a trek across three continents in the hope of getting her creative juices flowing. Thursday, December 31, 2009. NEW YEARS EVE IN MOROCCO. Again, we have missed the boat for a real celebration as ‘new years ‘is a mid-December affair in Islamic cultures (it marks when a new lunar calendar begins). So we are set up for a quiet one. Morocco has set off to a beautiful start. What has surprised me most so far in Morocco is how amazed fellow tra...
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A Time for Travel Writing: THIS IS WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT...
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A Time for Travel Writing. Sian Dhu, uninspired writer, embarks on a trek across three continents in the hope of getting her creative juices flowing. Monday, January 18, 2010. THIS IS WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT. Here we are in Mali. I can sum it up in three words:. OH…. MY….GOD! Apologies for the blasphemy Mum! This country is amazing! It almost makes me regret my time in Morocco. I can’t help but think WHY did I waste so much time and money there when I could have been here? After a saga to find a hotel, we...
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A Time for Travel Writing: February 2010
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A Time for Travel Writing. Sian Dhu, uninspired writer, embarks on a trek across three continents in the hope of getting her creative juices flowing. Tuesday, February 16, 2010. DRAWING TO A CLOSE. It’s like I have finally broken through a heavy, sticky mist that has been enshrouding me for the past week. My body is completely third-worlded out. My immune system has given me the finger and I have spent the last week probably the sickest I have ever been. Some were riding their motorbikes all the way from...
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A Time for Travel Writing: LUCKY THE HIPPOS WEREN'T HUNGRY...
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A Time for Travel Writing. Sian Dhu, uninspired writer, embarks on a trek across three continents in the hope of getting her creative juices flowing. Friday, January 22, 2010. LUCKY THE HIPPOS WEREN'T HUNGRY. One week in Mali and I am browner than I have ever been. Put me next to a Cadbury bar and you’d be hard pushed to tell us apart. Two days on a boat in the African desert sun will do that to you – and I’m not even trying! No amount of sunscreen and cowering in the shade will save me. It began with us...
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A Time for Travel Writing: October 2009
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A Time for Travel Writing. Sian Dhu, uninspired writer, embarks on a trek across three continents in the hope of getting her creative juices flowing. Thursday, October 29, 2009. CAN'T HELP BUT COMPARE. Today marks a week in the UK. Despite warnings, I have not yet frozen to death and have been rained on only once (even then it was more of a pathetic splutter of rain than an actual downpour). There's only one word for it: breathtaking. Despite living in the lap of luxury, I have had the chance to get abou...
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A Time for Travel Writing: THE WORLD IS SMALL....
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A Time for Travel Writing. Sian Dhu, uninspired writer, embarks on a trek across three continents in the hope of getting her creative juices flowing. Wednesday, January 13, 2010. THE WORLD IS SMALL. Sometimes you are reminded of how small the world really is. Ok, starting from the beginning…. Shame, as it would have been great to go to ‘the end of the road’ in Morocco, but it was a long way to taste a tiny bit of the Saharan desert when we are going to Mali which is just one big desert anyway. It seemed ...
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A Time for Travel Writing: September 2009
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A Time for Travel Writing. Sian Dhu, uninspired writer, embarks on a trek across three continents in the hope of getting her creative juices flowing. Wednesday, September 9, 2009. REALITY SETS IN.TRIGGERED BY A SIMPLE MOBILE PHONE. With only 6 weeks til departure, I've decided that organisation is probably a good thing to start contemplating. As I don't fancy getting kidnapped for ransom, robbed or blown up; safety is a major concern. Yet upon searching for an international sim so I am set up to call sai...
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A Time for Travel Writing: Whinging Pom
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A Time for Travel Writing. Sian Dhu, uninspired writer, embarks on a trek across three continents in the hope of getting her creative juices flowing. Friday, April 2, 2010. Aussies behold and obey my words of wisdom: from this point forth think twice before calling the English 'Whinging Poms'! There is a tendency for the Her Majesty's subjects to have the occasional whine, but stay the accusations! One Pom explained away their moans by suggesting. Complaint is the highest form of culture",. Yes, I am.
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A Time for Travel Writing: DOGON COUNTRY TREKKING...
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A Time for Travel Writing. Sian Dhu, uninspired writer, embarks on a trek across three continents in the hope of getting her creative juices flowing. Thursday, February 4, 2010. Before our boating disaster, we booked 10 days trekking across the Dogon. Region with the infamous Mo – owner of Mali Discovery Tours (a tricksy company! We paid half to Mo when booking. The other half we were to pay the guide upon arrival. DAY ONE…no, make that day minus one…. He had the aircon blaring yet the windows down so I ...