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ex-pat wife misunderstands “abroad”
Workers in locations like this get paid over he odds specifically because the location is weird and potentially dangerous. The responsibility for their safety lies with the companies who employee these...
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Helsinki
On the flight home I got talking to a girl who was publishing a book to be named “No Fear” on the changing face of business leadership brought about by globalisation and technology. An interesting...
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Mass tourism – scourge of the urban environment
The concept of tourists destroying what they visit is not new and was deftly described in a 1975 Science Fiction story by Garry Kilworth named “Let’s Go to Golgotha”. To quote Wikipedia: “In the future...
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Queensland Diary – Part 1 – Heathrow Airport
No natural light enters and after an hour or so we lose track of the time. Is it early morning, mid afternoon or the middle of the night? We have no way of knowing. We have jet lag before we have left...
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Queensland Diary – Part 2 – Hong Kong
The book shop was stuffed with books on the new China in both Chinese and English. With China industrialising now seems to be a good time to write books about the rise of China and the decline of The...
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Borg Central
I had arranged to meet a colleague but he was unaware of the precise location of the station and also unaware that it had two entrances. Around the stairs leading down are coffee shops and the only...
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chimney cake and the globalisation of ideas
The odd thing is that nobody seems interested in developing another system. People who don't like Capitalism have an irrational faith in Socialism. People who mistrust Socialism think that recessions,...
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Tis but an infinite stroke of eternity’s brush, this stretch of beach, this...
Travel broadens the mind. Travel is good. I love travel. There is nothing like that feeling you get when you arrive in a new city on the other side of the world. Everyone should travel. But…….is it too...
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Etiquette Confusion in Business Class
The new fangled seats in British Airways Business Class are, of course, utterly wonderful and fantastic. Aren't they? Well, yes. Club World it's called and you get champagne, a good meal and you can...
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Going for an Italian
Was in Rome a couple of weeks ago and stayed at the OP Hotel on viale Oceano Pacifico again. Fairly close to EUR. As I have blogged before this hotel is very satisfactory with a sort of art deco feel....
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Driving in France
Prior to motorcycling around France I had not appreciaited just how hot it gets in summer and how France lacks the usual supply of bars and cold drink stores. After a hot day’s traveling I drove...
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