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Monthly Archives: February 2010
Let them walk
Going to be totally lazy today and link to someone else’s blog 🙂 The blog in question is Soul Travelers 3. Their post 10 Best Tips for Family Friendly Travel! may be full of obvious things, but it is interesting … Continue reading
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Tagged back pack, blogsherpa, children, family travel, travel, walking
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Book Review: The Naked Guide to Bristol by Gil Gillespie
This book could be considered the ‘anti-Frommers‘ of travel guides – it is definitely aimed at someone who is interested in the alternative, the ‘real’ and the slightly off-beat rather than the usual tourist information. While the anti-establishment commentary starts … Continue reading
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Tagged blogsherpa, book review, bristol, england, great britain, naked guide, travel, uk, united kingdom
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Belief in Bristol
This morning, with the mobile charged so we could listen to The Bristol Churches Trail on MP3, we headed out into the rain to get some religious history happening. We visited some sites we had already visited previously—Bristol Cathederal and … Continue reading
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Tagged blogsherpa, bristol, cathederal, churches, england, great britain, maggi, methodist, moroccan, new room, ponyo, st thomas, uk, united kingdom
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Art and About in Bristol
Another day in Bristol means another adventure for us. We walked up to the West End, past many students walking about purposefully in gowns (there was obviously a graduation today at the University of Bristol), looking in quickly on the … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, arnolfini, art, blogsherpa, bristol, Castle Park, city, culture, edwardian, england, family travel, gallery, museum, Norman, public space, travel, uk, united kingdom
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Brunel’s Bristol
We are spending this school holiday in Bristol, a city we have not really spent much time in before. We arrived yesterday by train from London and after a visit to the Information Office we walked to our hotel, the … Continue reading
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Tagged audio guide, avon gorge, blogsherpa, bridge, bristol, brunel, clifton, cruickshank, culture, dockyards, england, family travel, georgian, ss great britain, travel, uk, walk, walking
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The Pre and Post Swiss Army Knife
I have been lucky enough to be listening to the brilliant BBC Radio series A History of the World in 100 Objects. I strongly recommend you download the pod casts now and have a listen – whiel the non-visual medium … Continue reading
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Tagged blogsherpa, communication, gear, iphone, ipod, leatherman, mobile, security gadgets, swiss army knife, tools, travel
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Further proof travel is good for you.
Back from Sesshin, I came across this article by Jonah Lehrer from Science Blogs that discusses why we travel: Such cultural contrasts mean that seasoned travelers are alive to ambiguity, more willing to re-alize that there are different (and equally … Continue reading
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Tagged aware, awareness, blogsherpa, creative, cultural contrast, lehrer, travel, why we travel
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Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Capetown by Paul Theroux
Theroux is an amazing travel writer—he is genuine. When he is irritated or finds something to be disappointed about he tells us, but it doesn’t seem contrived or as though he is being deliberately ironic or negative (looking at you … Continue reading
What blogging can do to you
Now, even though this blog is about a semi-specific topic, I must admit that for the past couple of years I have been falling into this trap – often experiencing things through the prism of ‘wow, how do I share … Continue reading
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Tagged awareness, blogs, blogsherpa, buddhism, internet, sesshin
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Let's do something different 
To tour, and seeing the other side of things
We are not really organised tour people. I have only ever taken three organised tours in my life: As a Uni student, I once went on a coach tour to the Big Pineapple (yes, you read that correctly) and the … Continue reading →