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- Weekend away. To be sure.
- by rowtheboat
- in rowtheboat.blog.co.uk
- 22 hours old
- So today I am off here...There will be this...There will be these...And there will be an obscene amount of this...Have good weekends, peeps... x more
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- Riding That Cloud!
- by mornin77
- in thefutureisnow.blog.co.uk
- 1 day old
- Going to Africa, where Lions and Tigers roam. On to Sparta, where, Greek soldiers trained. Let's go now, to Madrid, As the ladies really dance. Moving on to Ireland, to relish the green. Then way down under, To old Australia, to visit Sydney. Off to Hawaii now, where Hilo is great. Can't forget Paris, The city of lights. Riding that cloud, All... more
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- Burma is a kip
- by letterfromthailand
- in letterfromthailand.blog.co.uk
- 1 day old
- Myanmar’s ruling military junta threw down the shutters to foreigners after cyclone Nargis blasted its way through the country, in an attempt to keep out overseas journalists who might bear witness to the extent of the damage and the junta’s complete failure to help its victims. However, through a combination of reckless optimism and... more
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- Old news bud
- by letterfromthailand
- in letterfromthailand.blog.co.uk
- 3 days old
- At the weekend Ireland's Sunday Independent carried an article about Chinese brothels in the Dublin area posing as massage parlours and advertising in classifieds sections of newspapers:Jim Cusack's storyWell done. Great job. One year ago however, I wrote a story about Chinese brothels in the Dublin area posing as massage parlours and... more
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- Lemme in!
- by letterfromthailand
- in letterfromthailand.blog.co.uk
- 17 days old
- Journalists are often a contrary bunch so Thailand’s troubled neighbour Myanmar, a country from which western media workers are banned under threat of arrest and deportation, was somewhere I was eager to visit before leaving Southeast Asia. I had heard that visas for the country formerly known as Burma were hard to come by so I got the... more
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- To the victor goes the spoils
- by letterfromthailand
- in letterfromthailand.blog.co.uk
- 23 days old
- Public displays of affection are a bit of a no-no in Thailand but interestingly, only when between men and women. Beyond that, Thais - when among close friends - are a tactile bunch. School girls walk in and out of class holding hands, motorbike taxi drivers sit waiting for fares with arms slung around each others’ shoulders and groups of... more
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- Democracy in the EU
- by semafu
- in semafu.blog.co.uk
- 23 days old
- Morgan Tsvangirai put his supporters before himself when he pulled out of the Zimbabwean elections. He won the first round but that did not agree with the ruling regime. Somthing similar happened recently in Ireland, where the Irish people rejected the Lisbon Treaty. This result too did not agree with the ruling regime. They will have to vote... more
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- Galway Blog Meet - August 2008
- by scoobydoofus
- in galwayblogmeet.blog.co.uk
- 30 days old
- While you'd be forgiven for thinking otherwise, given the state of my blogging lately, there is still a blogmeet happening in Galway, Ireland in August. It's the UK bank holiday weekend - Friday 22nd to Monday 25th August. I thought I'd better post some information for anyone who is interested. It's better to book flights as early as possible -... more
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- Fight on?
- by letterfromthailand
- in letterfromthailand.blog.co.uk
- 38 days old
- My fourth attempt at finding a Muay Thai gym suitable to train in and fight for led me to Chakrit Muay Thai - a club that was well kitted out but surprisingly light on students. It was on my route to work and I had thrown a glance at it many times, but there never seemed to be much going on. I eventually dropped in and got chatting to Ek, a... more
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- Ireland, Europe and The Price Of Independence
- by ianrthorpe
- in machiavelli.blog.co.uk
- 44 days old
- A couple of weeks ago we brought you a story about how the European Palrliament (with the full support of Britain's neofascist Labour Group) are planning to silence MEPs (your elected representatives) who try to express Euroscepitc views. If the issue of Federalisation by stealth concerns you, you will want to take a look at the story For... more
