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Swahili Rhythm
Monday 26th April 2010
Swahili wedding celebrations are wonderful occasions. During my stay on Wasini, a small island off the Southeast coast of Kenya, I had the opportunity to take part in the womens’ festivities that occur prior to a traditional Muslim marriage ceremony.
Monday 26th April 2010
Swahili wedding celebrations are wonderful occasions. During my stay on Wasini, a small island off the Southeast coast of Kenya, I had the opportunity to take part in the womens’ festivities that occur prior to a traditional Muslim marriage ceremony.
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This is Kiev?
Monday 26th April 2010
“This? This is Kiev?” I asked the conductor on the twenty-hour Poland to Ukraine train in the simplest English possible. He replied back in a heavily accented English, “Yes! Yes! This Kiev!”
Monday 26th April 2010
“This? This is Kiev?” I asked the conductor on the twenty-hour Poland to Ukraine train in the simplest English possible. He replied back in a heavily accented English, “Yes! Yes! This Kiev!”
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Always Bring a Sandwich
Monday 22nd March 2010
When you live in a country it’s common not to take advantage of the historical and cultural pursuits on offer, as weekdays are dominated by work and weekends are wiled away drinking tequila and dancing Salsa badly in the local square.
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Profile: Washington DC
Monday 22nd March 2010
First time visitors to the United States often pass over the wonders of the nation's capital and chose to instead experience the brilliant high rises of New York City or Florida's tropical escapes
Monday 22nd March 2010
First time visitors to the United States often pass over the wonders of the nation's capital and chose to instead experience the brilliant high rises of New York City or Florida's tropical escapes
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City Profile: Bordeaux
Monday 22nd March 2010
When you first arrive in Bordeaux, you’ll feel as though you’ve fallen, Tron style, into an architect’s blue print without the cool motorbikes.
Monday 22nd March 2010
When you first arrive in Bordeaux, you’ll feel as though you’ve fallen, Tron style, into an architect’s blue print without the cool motorbikes.
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Celine
Monday 22nd March 2010
Cities aren’t like onions: they’re artichokes. Onions peel away to nothing. Artichokes reveal a hairy, hard to access core, successive layers peeling away like the snail-shell spiral of the Parisian arrondissiments. I think artichokes are a little like Paris.
Monday 22nd March 2010
Cities aren’t like onions: they’re artichokes. Onions peel away to nothing. Artichokes reveal a hairy, hard to access core, successive layers peeling away like the snail-shell spiral of the Parisian arrondissiments. I think artichokes are a little like Paris.
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Around the World with a camera
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A Weekend in Venice
Monday 7th December 2009
Venezia is a picturesque and utterly unique town in Northern Italy that is a tourist’s dream. However, seen from a local perspective it becomes much, much more.
Monday 7th December 2009
Venezia is a picturesque and utterly unique town in Northern Italy that is a tourist’s dream. However, seen from a local perspective it becomes much, much more.
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The Isle of Skye
Monday 7th December 2009
I think of Skye in its colors. In the spritely greens of the moss that cushions much of the landscape and the harsher, more sandpapery green of grass tufting the hillsides.
Monday 7th December 2009
I think of Skye in its colors. In the spritely greens of the moss that cushions much of the landscape and the harsher, more sandpapery green of grass tufting the hillsides.
Escaping the Bubble
Monday 7th December 2009
We all talk about escaping the confines of the bubble, but how many of us actually manage it? St. Andrews doesn’t have a railway station let alone an airport, but is it really as much trouble as it initially seems to get up and break away for a weekend, or perhaps longer?
Monday 7th December 2009
We all talk about escaping the confines of the bubble, but how many of us actually manage it? St. Andrews doesn’t have a railway station let alone an airport, but is it really as much trouble as it initially seems to get up and break away for a weekend, or perhaps longer?
There and Back Again, an Euro-Rail Tale
Monday 7th December 2009
First off, if you have ever considered going travelling, even just for the briefest second, along the lines of “I need to go to Tesco, write up my lecture notes, and I wonder what it would be like to go to Bulgaria”, then I would recommend you go for it.
Monday 7th December 2009
First off, if you have ever considered going travelling, even just for the briefest second, along the lines of “I need to go to Tesco, write up my lecture notes, and I wonder what it would be like to go to Bulgaria”, then I would recommend you go for it.
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City Profile: St Andrews
Monday 23rd November 2009
If Adam and Eve, on their solitary exile from Paradise, had stumbled across St Andrews they would have been able to stick two fingers up to God having found a new and better one (disregarding the weather).
Monday 23rd November 2009
If Adam and Eve, on their solitary exile from Paradise, had stumbled across St Andrews they would have been able to stick two fingers up to God having found a new and better one (disregarding the weather).
Credit Crunch Travelling
Monday 23rd November 2009
Students have been known to travel to the most bizarre places often using exceedingly intricate routes to get there – and this all for a number of very good reasons
Monday 23rd November 2009
Students have been known to travel to the most bizarre places often using exceedingly intricate routes to get there – and this all for a number of very good reasons
City Profile: Budapest
Monday 2nd November 2009
Both geographically and culturally, Budapest is the angry, rapid-beating heart of Hungary; a country which has for all intents and purposes embraced its old enemy capitalism. Huge, dirty and busy it has all the Orientalist qualities of an Asian city, being at once familiar and exotic.
Monday 2nd November 2009
Both geographically and culturally, Budapest is the angry, rapid-beating heart of Hungary; a country which has for all intents and purposes embraced its old enemy capitalism. Huge, dirty and busy it has all the Orientalist qualities of an Asian city, being at once familiar and exotic.
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Massacre at Srebrenica
Monday 2nd November 2009
It is not the sole act of travelling that helps a person grow in knowledge and culture. It is the entirety of travelling that may have that effect on us; it is the collaboration of body, spirit, mind and memory, which can help truly take us somewhere; even back in time.
Monday 2nd November 2009
It is not the sole act of travelling that helps a person grow in knowledge and culture. It is the entirety of travelling that may have that effect on us; it is the collaboration of body, spirit, mind and memory, which can help truly take us somewhere; even back in time.
Copyright S K Reid Photography'
Musings About Moving to Scotland
Monday 2nd November 2009
In three weeks I am moving to Scotland. While all of my peers are driving to private colleges and state universities, I’m still at home, preparing to leave the country.
Monday 2nd November 2009
In three weeks I am moving to Scotland. While all of my peers are driving to private colleges and state universities, I’m still at home, preparing to leave the country.
The Politics of Travel
Monday 2nd November 2009
Picture the classic scene: a sweaty mass of beer soaked, L-plate sporting, sunburnt and beer gutted bodies swarming a vomit soaked post-football match read
Monday 2nd November 2009
Picture the classic scene: a sweaty mass of beer soaked, L-plate sporting, sunburnt and beer gutted bodies swarming a vomit soaked post-football match read
City Profile: Lourdes
Monday 2nd November 2009
If pilgrimage was the conceiver of travel, then Lourdes is its immaculate conception; though just how immaculate is a question that leaves little to the imagination. read
Monday 2nd November 2009
If pilgrimage was the conceiver of travel, then Lourdes is its immaculate conception; though just how immaculate is a question that leaves little to the imagination. read
The Problem of Travel Writing
Monday 19th October 2009
Language is a colonizer. To speak and read and write are impositions of language onto both the agent and the subject. If ‘Colonization is at the origin: [and] we are always already dependants of language’, is it possible to express anything without colonial force and motivation;
Monday 19th October 2009
Language is a colonizer. To speak and read and write are impositions of language onto both the agent and the subject. If ‘Colonization is at the origin: [and] we are always already dependants of language’, is it possible to express anything without colonial force and motivation;
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Travelling on a budget
Monday 19th October 2009
You get the signal to enter the hall after anxiously waiting outside. You scope out your seat quickly, there is a sense of urgency in the way you behave, nervously writing down your name on the paper you await the signal from the coordinator.
Monday 19th October 2009
You get the signal to enter the hall after anxiously waiting outside. You scope out your seat quickly, there is a sense of urgency in the way you behave, nervously writing down your name on the paper you await the signal from the coordinator.
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Year Abroad: Germany
Monday 28th September 2009
I am walking through the corridors of a vast 18th century German palace, surrounded by another thirty or so, mostly female, students who all look as terrified and as dazed as I feel.
Monday 28th September 2009
I am walking through the corridors of a vast 18th century German palace, surrounded by another thirty or so, mostly female, students who all look as terrified and as dazed as I feel.
City Profile: Rotterdam
Monday 28th September 2009
Just 45 minutes from its eurotrashy counterpart, Rotterdam lies, or rather poses coolly on the banks of the Nieuwe Maas dressed in the kind of colourful, dynamic architecture you might find in H&M if they sold buildings.
Monday 28th September 2009
Just 45 minutes from its eurotrashy counterpart, Rotterdam lies, or rather poses coolly on the banks of the Nieuwe Maas dressed in the kind of colourful, dynamic architecture you might find in H&M if they sold buildings.
The Pros and Cons of a Gap Year
Monday 28th September 2009
I wish I was currently sitting in a hammock, under equatorial sun, sipping a cuba libre and listening to Bob Marley. Nearly two years ago I would have been doing exactly that. I travelled Ecuador for two months, having a month on the Galapagos Islands.
Monday 28th September 2009
I wish I was currently sitting in a hammock, under equatorial sun, sipping a cuba libre and listening to Bob Marley. Nearly two years ago I would have been doing exactly that. I travelled Ecuador for two months, having a month on the Galapagos Islands.
Becoming Poirot: Interail
Monday 28th September 2009
Unfortunately, my little grey cells were allowed to remain idle since I didn’t happen by strange coincidence to witness any murders on even one of the eight trains that took me and two friends on a whirlwind loop of, in map-speak, just a little patch of Europe.
Monday 28th September 2009
Unfortunately, my little grey cells were allowed to remain idle since I didn’t happen by strange coincidence to witness any murders on even one of the eight trains that took me and two friends on a whirlwind loop of, in map-speak, just a little patch of Europe.