... is alien from us?
This anxiety has spurred reflections on my life. Travelling, cultivating international friendships, or learning languages are all devices I adopt to compensate a deficiency and build ...
... without staying one night in town. As I travelled north I noticed that the sky became clearer, the sun shonestronger, and the temperature went up.
Starting from Larabanga junction, the road becomes unsealed, ...
... funeral is organised the body is somehow preserved in the hospital morgue until everything is ready. Relatives and friends travel distances to gather, typically from Friday evening until the Sunday thanksgiving ...
... conditions. With the traffic there are hardly any trekkers anymore. The lodges, that once were bustling profitable concerns, lie now empty, forsaken by the travellers that came to enjoy the mountain trails. ...
... taken this long to travel within China – true, from its far West until its far East, but still with no borders to cross. I said that if two months were needed to cover this distance, in two year's time ...
... these horror items were not enough to degrade the owner as irremediably “common”.
In the lower Belvedere the fine collection of travel landscapes painted on the route of the Orient was good to lift my ...
My Isreali neighbour had alerted me a week in advance. His nephew would arrive at Milan and the next day he would travel on to the south where he’s studying. Would I be able to pick him up from the train ...
... only see through the eyes of imagination. We travelled across a hilly landscape with sparse farmhouses, yurts, cattle and horses. Finally, we arrived in sight of beautiful pine forests, of very tall cylindrical ...
... it might be ours. However, back at the market, a man offered to take us in his lorry without even waiting. And we were lucky because the Taiwan girl, who was now travelling with three boys from her country, ...
... The population is however mostly Uyghur. It would be naïve and selfish for the traveller to expect a traditional lifestyle today as if time had stopped from the epoch of the trading caravans across the ...