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Currently flying the last hour to Amsterdam returning from a few days in Moscow - look below for a few posts.
Moscow surprised me a bit. Despite reports saying that English is becoming lingua franca in business, the capital still seems like there’s a long way to go before this communication barrier really dissappears. As in […]

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I’ve spent the better half of the evening trying to navigate through Moscow using the cyrillic alphabet. Tomorow’s a normal working day here and so I’ve thrown the towel in the ring at about 2200 hrs. a taxi is speeding me through Moscow to what I hope is my hotel. tomorrow there is another day […]

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Arrived in the Caribbean, actually just now trying out this posting system for the first time from the tytnii phone using SharpMT. We’ve arrived in good condition to spend a couple of weeks in the Dominican Republic (DR). MartinAir’s “comfort” service was really worth the extra money… It’s now 6;40 in the morning and we […]

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Lonely Planet Bluelist
Originally uploaded by gubbex.
Grrrrreeeeaaaaatt!!! The people at Lonely Planet have come out with a BLUELIST - essentially with great help from their readers all over the World. And what are their (indirect) comments on our trips?:
China 2005 - on the Great Wall:
“The touristed parts of Badaling are not recommended; try instead a walk […]

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Today Thusgaard.com is celebrating it’s 7 years birthday. Originally registered in 1999, having had 3 different designs throughout those years, it’s been hosted in Denmark and Luxembourg by a handful of different companies, and is currently administrated out of Netherlands.
Furthermore it has transformed and followed web culture forward (as much as a family site can […]

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In 1997 Herb van Drongelen went on a daring adventure. He took his bike down the narrow stairs of his Amsterdam home and started 6 years of cycling around the World.
Earlier today we went to De Cantine in Amsterdam to see his exhibition. Just an outstanding, fantastic, fascinating exhibition.

[tags]Herb van Drongelen, Cycling, Travel, Adventure, Around […]

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