NETHERLANDS | Friday, 17 Apr 2015 | Views [392] | Comments [3] | Scholarship Entry
For many tourists, Amsterdam is a city of sin, a place tainted by the seedy reputation of De Wallen, where a network of alleyways crisscross the canals, each turn revealing some new vice. The scent of cannabis smoke hangs thickly in the air. The neon ... Read more >
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COSTA RICA | Wednesday, 28 Mar 2012 | Views [780] | Comments [6] | Scholarship Entry
The woman leads us down the slip thin alley, a
welted concrete and barbed wire lined street hung with a firestorm of clothing
set to dry, her feet beating an urgent rhythm against the dust. My sister
hurries after her, moving with the same focus.... Read more >
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WORLDWIDE | Sunday, 27 Mar 2011 | Views [594] | Scholarship Entry
I wake in the morning in the sunlight and the warmth and the air perfumed by wildflowers. I rise with the sun. There are no alarm clocks in this place, and even if there were, they would not feel right. The calm and quiet stillness has an almost spiritual ... Read more >
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