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Travel Writing Competition 2011 Entries Page2

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Istanbul a Mystifying Experience

  • September 22, 2020
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This is the first time I have ever gone to Istanbul and what a mystical, exotic place it is with so many sights and sounds to see.
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Rome – Stuck in History

  • September 22, 2020
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People were banging on both sides of the train trying to get in, even as it started to more away sluggish at first from the overload, more people ran alongside desperate to get inside.
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I dont think her mother taught her anything

  • September 22, 2020
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“I don’t think her mother taught her anything,” whispered Josefina to her daughter, Maria Santana, both of whom sat on the back step of the house smoking their pipes.
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Dizzy

  • September 22, 2020
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Salamanca’s Plaza Mayor is deliciously overwhelming. Neon-clad children ride scooters across it at midnight, navigating their way through clusters of tourists. University students, in scarves and sunglasses...
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Crossing Borders

  • September 22, 2020
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Her name was Estrella, and she lived behind two borders, and I was stuck among many more. I had stumbled upon her during one of my many wanderings. Exoticism, traveling, and the corresponding arrogance...
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Making Friends in Kefa

  • September 22, 2020
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“Excuse us for staring but we’re not used to people like you here.” Smiling broadly, staring intently, ten or more people seem to emerge from invisible crevices of the tardis-like...
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Watching the sky turn red

  • September 22, 2020
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Watching the sky turn red over the Valley of the Kings is a moment very few people will ever forget. One of the world’s great panoramas, the ancient city of Luxor sprawls on the east bank and the Valley of the Kings dominates the west.
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Tuscan Olympia

  • September 22, 2020
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“Let me take you someplace.” We followed a narrow, hazardous route at a considerable speed, rounding hair-pin turns on a one-way road without shoulders.
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A Paris Encounter

  • September 22, 2020
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It sat in the corner by itself, a silent menacing presence. It gave no clues as to its family of origin, terrifying in its brown ordinariness.
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Vito a real Italian

  • September 22, 2020
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I had a typical aupair girl - day. Discussions about homework and limiting playstation and computer-time with the eight year old Guido.
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