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Go with the flow, Swimtrek, Croatia

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

swimtrekI look down at my hands pushing through the turquoise water and have a weird realisation.  They are exactly the same shape as my father’s.  I guess we rarely watch our hands in action, but here I am, twenty kilometres off Croatia’s coast, striding through the waves, and I have this bizarre hand moment. I have been swimming for an hour now, and have [...]

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Food and tourism

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

cliffs-of-moher-resize “All this pasta is no good for keeping me regular”, an Irish colleague once told me on a work trip to Rome. We had to spend an afternoon looking for an Irish pub, just so that he could rebalance his digestive system with some ‘real’ food - a pint. Some people just aren’t meant to travel together. I recalled this [...]

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