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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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105. Just doing a whole lot of flakey zoning out
Read more: 105. Just doing a whole lot of flakey zoning outI dated a guy for four minutes a while ago and he used to describe yoga as ‘zoning out’. ‘How did you enjoy your zoning out?’ he would say. Did he think I was off down grading a cell phone plan? While it’s true the mind is somewhat set free during yoga, should I for…
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104. I can ooom with that.
Read more: 104. I can ooom with that.I’m off somewhere in the world, to get better at yoga, to get better at me. The flight airlifted me out of my life at midnight, and I’m still in the sky. Whoever said time flies wasn’t in a long haul plane at the time. I said no to a cocktail on takeoff, and made…
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103. French men are hot
Read more: 103. French men are hot
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102.They have me at bonjour
Read more: 102.They have me at bonjourThe good news is that I have had more than one, okay, I have actually had three french people come up and ask me for directions on this trip. And yesterday, someone asked me how much the bus was to get to the train station and not only did I understand her, I actually…
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101. Deception. It’s french for anti-climax
Read more: 101. Deception. It’s french for anti-climaxThis is a picture of the location of the yoga class I was going to do this morning. Googled it, mapped it, dressed for it, researched the language required to ask for a single class, walked to it. In my mind, I had already embraced that stretched, exultant, I’m too sexy for my activewear feeling…
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100. Is this where redheads come from?
Read more: 100. Is this where redheads come from?Situated in the Luberon, at the foot of the Monts de Vaucluse, Roussillon is a picture perfect village snuggled in the heart of one of the biggest ochre deposits in the world. Who knew you could mine colour? Okay well probably a lot of people other than me. It was a spectacular place to spend…









