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In Search Of New Horizons

When it comes to matters of travelling, I encourage pure, unadulterated exploration. Whilst travelling promises new experiences, a personal vendetta of mine is towards the more commercialised holiday destinations. A chance to flee your home town for a while should be an exhilarating adventure, not a time in…

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Thursday 12th January 2012

An Erasmus Student’s Guide to Prague’s Nightlife

As an Erasmus student, it sometimes seems that all you hear about is Erasmus parties. It’s not that there’s anything wrong with them: they serve an undeniable function of bringing Erasmus people together; but to allow them to consume your entire social life is to limit your experience…

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Thursday 5th January 2012

Surviving Your Year Abroad

If you’re worrying about what could go wrong on your year or semester abroad, it’s probably happened to me and it’s never as bad as you think: Tip #1 Don’t let the organisation get you down. It’s important to make the most of your year at home because…

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Wednesday 4th January 2012

The Holiday Tattoo

The words ‘holiday tattoo’ carry with them indelible memories of the time I sat with blurred vision and wobbly footing at the back of a Thai tattoo parlour after a somewhat hazy night at the Full Moon Party. Fortunately, I was not the one having ink scratched into…

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Wednesday 14th December 2011

The Inauthentic Hilltribe Experience

Having devoted a considerable proportion of summer 2010 to reading On the Road and The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac, my spirit had been suitably roused for a whirlwind adventure. Fortunately those dreams were realised this summer when armed with travel buddy, backpack and camera, we jetted off to absorb the culture…

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Monday 12th December 2011

“What do you think of Chinese girls, Sir?”

It was early in the morning, and I had heard a quiet knock at the hotel room door. Haggardly rising from a jet-lagged slumber, I opened it and was confronted by a small Chinese woman who barged her way into the room. She told me in quick, heavily-accented…

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Thursday 8th December 2011

Begging: The Big Issue

Begging Helps the Locals When travelling in third world countries, the swarm of beggars on the streets with cupped hands outstretched, children pulling at your clothes, mothers crying whilst sickly babies barely stay upright on their shoulders and old men and women diseased and doubled over, is a…

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Thursday 8th December 2011

Begging in the UK

Why is it that in the UK we are so quick to believe that the beggars on our streets are there out of choice but when it comes to abroad we feel that they have no other option? Controversially, in 2003 the government made begging a recordable offence.…

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Tuesday 6th December 2011

Dirt, Death and Dissertations

Feeling courageous (or foolish), this summer I embarked on a two-week trip to Varanasi to undertake research for my dissertation…and I travelled alone! Varanasi, Shiva city, the beating heart of Indian Hinduism, known once as the ‘City of Life’, (ironic perhaps as it’s also a city of considerable…

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Monday 5th December 2011

Begging – The Big Issue: The Best Way to Give

Walking out of the killing fields in Cambodia, I found myself face to face with an ageing man on crutches, his left trouser rolled up around the stump of what once was his leg, one arm held towards me, begging. After the highly disturbing experience of mass graves…

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