Author: CBT
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Why is food poisoning so common in Mexico?
All the countries that I’ve travelled to came with health warnings. For Thailand, for example, I was warned not to drink anything that had ice cubes in it, as, while the drink itself would probably be fine, the ice cubes would likely be from unsafe tap water. Ultimately, I found iced drinks too hard to…
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Why are so many American cities not “walkable”?
I have, by now, been to many cities. I have seen pretty, pastel-coloured cities, I have seen grey, skyscraper cities, I have seen cities that were barely worth the name. But Phoenix was something altogether new, unlike anything I’ve encountered before. The huge roads of multiple lanes were more like motorways, and the pavements were…
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USA (Arizona) & Mexico
Day 1 I had hoped that I would be finding my hotel in Phoenix by the light of a desert sunset, but no, night has fallen by the time I leave the airport. It makes the city all the more confusing and intimidating. I stop briefly to take stock, and note that there are almost…
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Why do so many Welsh people go to Australia?
While walking past the reception in the hostel in Darwin, I heard the receptionist tell a group of young women, ‘We don’t get many Welsh people here’. Attention grabbed, I turned and asked, ‘You don’t?’. It turned out that several of the group were from Wales, including a girl from Pwllheli – Welsh-speaking Gog (Northener),…
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An Admission of Failure
While walking past a beach in Darwin, I saw a lone man facing the sea. His arms were spread wide, and he seemed to be declaiming something to the waves in Larrakia. I wondered if he was a local eccentric, until, later in the day, I saw a group of people on another beach in…
