Tag: travel
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January 14, 2008 08:44 AM EST --
Ceilidh Culture is held in springtime every year in the city of Edinburgh. It is a showcase for traditional Scots arts such as dance, story-telling, music and song. This year it will . . . more
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August 02, 2007 08:54 AM EDT --
This is a STV's internet offering. If you want to see small video snippets about Scottish history, culture, food, dance etc - then there are articles here worth a look....
http://www.scotlandontv.tv/ . . . more
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April 15, 2008 09:01 PM EDT --
To begin at Part One of this two-part series, click HERE
December 2006
Twenty-six months later I'm standing . . . more
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August 23, 2007 09:47 AM EDT --
This is for those of you who might be interested to learn that, contrary to the belief of many, bagpipers do actually learn their musical skills! Here's a short Youtube video about the Army School . . . more
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February 07, 2008 11:14 AM EST --
An article I wrote about Father Yousef (above) for the January/February issue of Washington Report on Middle East Affairs is now available online. I've posted an excerpt . . . more
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December 05, 2007 11:52 AM EST --
He was about 6'4" and said he was from Kuwait, though later an official at the U.S. consulate would tell me he was likely from . . . more
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December 15, 2007 03:02 PM EST --
As our coach moves through the rain-soaked streets of Buenos Aires to begin a city tour, I muse that Buenos Aires has a different feel than Rio de Janeiro, which we visited a few days ago. It seems statelier . . . more
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January 07, 2008 01:49 PM EST --
The Middle East.
What comes to mind when you hear about this region of the world? Unrest, war, poverty, extremists, terrorists, oil, Iraq, Saddam Hussein, Osama Bin Laden? The reality is that . . . more
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November 29, 2007 12:24 PM EST --
In the southern part of San Jose lies the famous Avenue Centrale' or what we here in America would call Central Avenue.
The Central Market
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March 28, 2008 12:45 PM EDT --
On my laptop is a Word document in which three years ago I typed up my favorite passages - 4,000 words worth - from Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers . . . more
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December 19, 2007 02:47 PM EST --
Continued from the previous article.
A Summary of the First Part of the Novel ( Needed Here for Understanding this Part)
Kismet (and this is not his real name) . . . more
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February 29, 2008 04:18 PM EST --
The following story, based on a 2004 visit to Bangkok and set largely in a strip club, is one of the more sensitive pieces I've . . . more
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April 25, 2008 01:21 PM EDT --
What follows is lifted from my personal journal and is set in 2004 on Indonesia's largest island, Sumatra. I don't . . . more
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March 13, 2008 11:37 PM EDT --
In one of the final pages of Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karmazov , the main character is speaking to a group of boys and encouraging . . . more
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February 13, 2008 12:14 PM EST --
For hours I had been traveling up the Nile Valley, from Luxor to Cairo, on a train jammed with Egypt's working poor. Having been . . . more
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May 22, 2008 05:00 PM EDT --
Early this summer I anticipate the publication of my book 30 Reasons to Travel: Photographs and Reflections from Southeast Asia . . . . more
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January 15, 2008 08:12 PM EST --
I don't speak a word of Spanish, except maybe por f avor and gracias, but I am learning. A December trip to Guatemala with a group of ophthalmologists opened my eyes to its beautiful culture . . . more
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January 02, 2008 11:58 PM EST --
Siquijor is this small: one can take a full trip around the island with just a single cigarette stick. And since there is no snarling traffic to thread through, by the time one gets back to his point of . . . more
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