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Travel Writing Competition 2012 Entries Page3

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The Business Trip I Want To Forget!

  • September 22, 2020
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Our business trip to Guangzhou China - We were driving 1 hour to the factory, the sky was a dark charcoal colour..I commented 'Looks like we are in for a bad storm'? " Oh no " the driver said that is "Prousion"
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Adventures of a Beach umbrella

  • September 22, 2020
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The tiny, overcrowded bus from Santorini’s capital, Firà, came to a screeching halt, and unceremoniously dumped its sweaty passengers onto the black volcanic sand of Perissa beach. “God, it’s hot”, observed...
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A Place That I Didn’t Want To Be

  • September 22, 2020
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Setting off from my house in Barka, near Muscat, at 4am I meet an Indian neighbour sitting in the comfortable dark cool of the morning; we smile and wish each other a good morning. I start the car and note that the...
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Lost In Delhi’s Moonlit Market

  • September 22, 2020
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We are lost. Hopelessly lost in Chandni Chowk, the ‘moonlit market’, in a sensory overload of nighttime noise and colour. The streets that seem so benign in the daylight quickly become the place where two unescorted...
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But I do want to be there…

  • September 22, 2020
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O dear, have I ever been in a place I didn’t want to be? Possibly while picnicking on yesterday’s cold parathas, heavy oily flannels of indigestible dough unwrapped from the car boot and three layers of foil on the...
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Buddhist wisdom

  • September 22, 2020
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Note to self. Next time you go to Hong Kong for new years, book a room in advance. After hours of walking I finally found a hotel with a vacancy. The owner called his wife to show me to my room.
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A Smile Can do Wonders

  • September 22, 2020
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Who knew a 45 second encounter with a girl no more than 12, could have such an impact? It’s been 3 years, and I still think of her often. I wonder if she feels the same.
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The Underground Palace, Istanbul

  • September 22, 2020
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This is the first time I have ever gone to Istanbul and what a mystical, place it is with so many sights and sounds to see. Stepping back in time to the 6th century the underground dark remains of the Palace Cistern...
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I’ve Arrived

  • September 22, 2020
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Even as I took in the hot summer weather and gorgeous green scenery, I still couldn't help feeling a bit homesick. I had recently experienced a major disillusionment with someone I considered a good friend;
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The Ghost City

  • September 22, 2020
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A cold autumn sun is kissing yellow leaves that are dancing in the wind. A squirrel is looking for something to eat on the ground. It does not scare people. The grass and tree trunks break through asphalt and concrete walls.
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