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A Weekend in Venice
Monday 7th December 2009
Monday 7th December 2009
The Isle of Skye
Monday 7th December 2009
Monday 7th December 2009
Seeing the Berlin Wall Fall
Monday 7th December 2009
Monday 7th December 2009
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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.
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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. I know the look quite well: the raised eyebrows, the half-open mouth nearly ready to whistle, laugh or gape, the confusion in the eyes.
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. I know the look quite well: the raised eyebrows, the half-open mouth nearly ready to whistle, laugh or gape, the confusion in the eyes.
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; do the things we are describing wish to be described?
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; do the things we are describing wish to be described?
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.
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.