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Read more: 144. Shanghai, you magnificent overachiever.144. Shanghai, you magnificent overachiever.
If cities were supermodels, Shanghai would be the impossibly tall, other-worldly beauty, all height, confidence and angles, with silky molasses-coloured hair, improbably bright blue eyes, flawless skin. The kind of presence you simply can’t look away from. I was struck by her scale and shine. There’s a palpable sense of pride in what’s been built.…
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127. Ranting on the bus.
Read more: 127. Ranting on the bus.I’m catching a lot of public transport in Colombia. I’m shoulder to shoulder with the locals; I like it. But there’s a new phenomenon here. Ranting people. The first time I noticed it I thought someone was having a long one-sided convo on the phone with someone. Then my local friend said “We have…
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126. Fall down eight times, get up nine.
Read more: 126. Fall down eight times, get up nine.While we’re on the subject of action man activity in Colombia, I may as well share my sunset SUP experience right? I’d done it once before in New Zealand and, weirdly for an unbalanced girl (physically not mentally, although that could be in dispute), I didn’t fall off once. The promise of an apricot…
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125. Bored? Try flying.
Read more: 125. Bored? Try flying.The Flyboard was invented in Autumn 2012 by a French water-craft rider, Franky Zapata. What a very rock and roll name. The design allows the device to literally jettison out of the water and be stable in the air. Well, stable-ish. There is nothing in my DNA – no matter how many past lives I…
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124.Something about a big bottomed girl.
Read more: 124.Something about a big bottomed girl.It’s been with me since puberty, this enthusiastic bum of mine. It’s been a little bigger at times, and it’s even been a little bit smaller on occasion, but in terms of a hip to waist ratio, at all times it has been on the extravagant side. I’ve embraced it as best I can over…
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123. Hopeless tourist.
Read more: 123. Hopeless tourist.Last night, I counted the countries I’ve visited. 29 – now including Colombia. So I’ve decided I can call myself a seasoned traveller without conceit or exaggeration. But being a tourist? Not my bag. I used to describe myself as a lazy tourist but this trip has changed my mind. I’m just not one at all.…
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122. The basic moves for me.
Read more: 122. The basic moves for me.To get to Cartagena we had to go via Cali. Apparently it’s the sporting centre of Colombia which, as you can imagine, thrilled me to the core. So I wasn’t excited about a Cali stopover. I thought it might be like Hamilton, a sprawl you try to get through quickly. I was wrong. We were there…
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