Tag: travel
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travel
For some reason recently several different people have said things to me about travel – the sort of thing that could easily be a meme. If they hadn’t said them in person I would have assumed that my phone had been listening to me or checking out my social media scrolling and the algorithm was…
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Plain Safe
Mutley Plain, the road on which our church premises are located, is a busy vehicular artery into Plymouth city centre. There are lovely shops on both sides of the road, which means there are lots of pedestrians who want to cross it. While there are little green men at the crossing points to help people…
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going abroad
Foreign travel sounds exotic, exciting, and adventurous. If you have ever flown on a commercial airline you will know that once you arrive at the airport expectations of ‘exotic, exciting and adventurous’ are replaced with ‘queueing, waiting and boredom.’ First of all you arrive and find where you have to go to check in to confirm your place…
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China in your hand?
Yesterday’s bloggage reminded me of an incident that took place while I was travelling through China. I was part of a small international group, led by a lovely American lady who knew China (and the languages) very well. She also knew a lot about Chinese culture and traditions. And she got to know me and…
