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Beach hawkers

INDONESIA | Wednesday, 16 Jul 2008 | Views [319]

"A massage" "Sarong?" "a bracelet for your boy" "Where are you from?" "A kite mister?" "You need car?" Local street hawkers hassle you all the time trying to flog you ... Read more >

Tags: beach, hawkers, hassle, people, children

On the origins of classical Greek sculpture

GREECE | Wednesday, 24 Oct 2007 | Views [873]

Sitting on the beach in the little fishing village of Apollonas on the northern tip of the Greek island of Naxos, I pick up a beautifully smooth pebble. Nothing unusual about that, except this one is made of high quality marble and has the most gorgeous ... Read more >

Tags: culture, sculptures, art, greek, marble, beach, naxos, greek islands

Secret paradise

AUSTRALIA | Sunday, 23 Apr 2006 | Views [901] | Comments [2]

We first stumbled across Jervis bay when we first hitched around Australia as backpackers in 1989, but it was some years before we discovered a little corner called 'Green patch'. Incredibly, they were actually going to build Australia's first nuclear ... Read more >

Tags: beach, sunshine, jervis bay, travel with children, magic

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