I don’t expect Beirut to be quite this colourful; more muted versions of these colours. Falafel, traffic, dirt, Mediterranean, pale and dusty yellow, hectic, tomatoes, rocks, apartment blocks, hummus, bullet holes, mountains, sunshine, rain, old French buildings, halloumi, concrete, cars pipping, colourful clothes, cats, street food, Arabic writing, spices, lots of tatty posters, taxis. As […]
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Cranes. Exterior curtains. Traffic. Palm trees. “Handbag” bread. Friendly locals. Pineapple coconut mousse cake. Cars pipping. Dilapidated buildings. Cats. Antique shops. Call to prayer. Dirty shoes. Sunshine. Mediterranean sea spray. Syrian refugees begging. Reproduction “Phoenician” architecture. Crumbling Phoenician architecture. Small themed bars (Hemingway, East v West Germany). Flowers. Decorative banana displays. Posters. Ruins of Roman
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Route: Calais – Epernay – Langres – Dijon – Mâcon – Brignais (Lyon) – Pérouges – Lyon – Clermont-Ferrand – Volvic – Le Compas – Sermur – Bellegarde-en-Marche – La Feuille du Limousin (goat cheese farm) – Bourganeuf – St-Leonard-de-Noblat – Limoges – Chauvigny – Angles-sur-L’Anglin – Cheverny – Cour-Cheverny – Tours – Orbec –
This is the post I have most been dreading writing about South Korea because there is so much to say about Seoul and we saw and did an awful lot. The reason I decided to write about things we experienced and did in South Korea is because I felt there wasn’t much useful and accurate
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Why go? To see the Oriental Medicine Market. Is it worth going out of your way to visit? No. We went out of our way to visit Daegu because I really wanted to visit the Oriental Medicine Market that my guide book had a special box about. It was staggeringly disappointing. Daegu Daegu is a
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Jeonju was the place I most wanted to visit in South Korea and I had marked loads of things I wanted to see and do in my guide book. On trying to book the accommodation I desperately wanted to stay at, Seunggwangje, I discovered someone’s blog about Jeonju and it roused some suspicions that, yet
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