It was Monday, and I was dumbstruck.

Now, you and I both know that Mondays suck. No matter how much you might like where-ever you wind up at the beginning of the work-week, it still marks the end of the weekend and the resumption of drab responsibilities.

Any other Monday, I might be in the office, twiddling my thumbs and reading travel blogs and staring out the window until the clock finally hit 4:30.

But this Monday, I was sitting two meters away…

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I survived! No-one is more surprised than me....but let me explain. Japan, to say the least, was an impromptu trip. As of mid-January, I'd been on crutches for almost two and a half months, which had whittled my social life down to the movie nights, dinner parties and booze fests that I could host in my shoebox. Gone were the dinners out, the nights dancing,…

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I can be a real cheapskate sometimes.

So when my travel buddy and I were in Arequipa, Peru, and she asked if I wanted to check out the Santa Catalina Monastery, I initially took a look at the entrance fee and scoffed. 35 soles (12$) to get in? I had better things to spend the money on - like dinner!

Besides, just walking around a city is always free. And isn't that the most interesting kind of sightseeing?…

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Just today, I was looking through my photographs from Morocco when I came across these pictures of my favourite souvenirs.



Morocco is a shopper's paradise, to say the least - walking through the souks, there's a multitude of things to discover, so many strange new trinkets and crafts and antiques the likes of which you've never seen anywhere else. Big paper lanterns in greens and reds, damascene bracelets made of iron and filigreed silver, tiny… Continue