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Read more: 151. Sending back what the optimist ordered151. Sending back what the optimist ordered
I have been to Fiji eight times. Eight. Not once did it rain more than what we all know as a sun shower. I want that on the record before I tell you what Samoa did to us. This trip was a gift. Literally. Five years ago, the Latino left Argentina, left his family, his job,…
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94.An introvert in Paris
Read more: 94.An introvert in ParisI’m in the lobby restaurant of the Hotel Jeu de Paume, on a cold and wet Monday in Paris. Nestled between the two arms of the Seine River, Jeu de Paume has been sheltering travellers since the 17th century so it’s coping well with this one. It’s raining and Im fine with that. So very…
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93. And the fog rolled in.
Read more: 93. And the fog rolled in.I’ve just had a little reminder that life sometimes doesn’t give a fuck about your best laid plans. The pilots are calling it fog in Shanghai, most probably a pea soup combination of nature and its toxic belching opposite slugging it out for supremacy. So with four hours to catch a plane to Paris, I…
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89. Demon slayer.
Read more: 89. Demon slayer.Look. I might be imagining it. But when I walked back from the first 90 minute meditation of the retreat, I was PRETTY FUCKING CALM. Like, a lot calmer than I was when I nervously walked towards the place that’s for sure. I celebrated by dropping into a sake bar round the corner from the apartment.…
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88. Is meaning the new money?
Read more: 88. Is meaning the new money?As this has become my travel blog, I am checking in from Sydney. There is a writer’s festival on. There is VIVID, the festival of art, music and ideas, and there is a refuge retreat at Mahasiddha Kadampa Meditation Centre. This is the same group I flirt with in Auckland. Add to this collision of…
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87. Friends I made in Tahiti.
Read more: 87. Friends I made in Tahiti.I know it sounds a lot like an imaginary friend, but I met a French woman called Francy this week. I met her at my accidental aerobics class, once I could talk again properly. She’s an adventurer, a little blond fireball of energy and light, probably 60 I reckon. Lived here for 15 years now,…
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86. Losing my Jet Ski virginity.
Read more: 86. Losing my Jet Ski virginity.The guide was a loose unit, only vaguely interested in us. You do this before? Four out of six of us said no. This is the throttle. No brakes. Okay, follow me! He took off like there were killer ants threatening to crawl into his jocks. He didn’t look back. We blasted around the island,…
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