The sun had set along ago and the evening air was creeping lower, lower… I was ready to give up hope. My walk around the Forbidden Palace in hope of finding Tiananmen Square was becoming hopeless and the -2 degree weather was far less than the 36 degrees I’d left in Australia. “Pedal?” a man on a rickshaw [...]
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Filing out of Freedom House in two straight-lines you could feel the tense nature of our surroundings. We could see into North Korea from here, and North Korea could see us. Lining up along the top step a North Korean soldier raised his binoculars, examining us from a distance. Only a hundred feet or so separated us from [...]
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You could hear the noise before you had reached the stadium. The cheers of the crowd and of course the low rumbling of reeds vibrating over a constant reservoir of air from the bag played by skilled hands – the bagpipes were singing their tune. It is one of the biggest events on the Edinburgh calendar [...]
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Come with me, Nicole, as I try and find a cure for my travel bug bite one country at a time, and ask you -
Bitten by the Travel Bug?
