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How to short stay in Seattle
Shepard Fairey’s work in Seattle. What a lovely launch site for a cruise to Alaska’s famed Inside Passage. Seattle! This is a cool American city and only having two nights and one day before embarking on our cruise we had to make hay while the sun was shining. I had been told it rains a…
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China: First Encounter

A mate of mine recently visited Beijing for the first time and was mighty impressed with the super high rise modernity and the cosmopolitan ambience. It threw me back to my first trip there in the late 80s. My first visit to China was on a whim in 1989. I saw an ad in the…
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travelgaltravels.wordpress.com/2018/12/11/singapore-shophouses-shine/
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Japan, how to hot pot in the hot spot
A previous post of mine – ‘Overtourism or over tourism’, posted March 2024 was my restrained rant on the crowds I encountered on a holiday in southern Italy during 2023. Behemoths berthing at popular cities and spitting out thousands of cruisers to traipse the flagstones along the rustic lanes of ancient villages ready to plunder…
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Japan, how to hot pot in the hot spot
A previous post of mine – ‘Overtourism or over tourism’, posted March 2024 was my restrained rant on the crowds I encountered on a holiday in southern Italy during 2023. Behemoths berthing at popular cities and spitting out thousands of cruisers to traipse the flagstones along the rustic lanes of ancient villages ready to plunder…
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travelgaltravels.com/2019/11/05/postcards-from-the-seaside/ #traveltuesday