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Temperance bars and other nonsense

July 5, 2019 By Gareth Johnson Leave a Comment

temperance bars

Before Al Gore invented the internet as a way for ugly people to have sex people used to go to things called “pubs”. The general theory of pubs was that people were required to drink enough alcohol so that they would lower their standards to enough of a level (and someone of the opposite sex… Full Story »

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Cutud Lenten: getting nailed in the Philippines

June 20, 2019 By Lee Parry Leave a Comment

Cutud Lenten Rites participants make their way through the streets.

Fancy getting nailed in the Philippines? I am sure this question has been asked (and, indeed answered) on more than one occasion, with context being particularly important. For the last four years I have guided a tour to the San Pedro Cutud Lenten Rites Festival, a yearly reenactment of the Passion of the Christ. It… Full Story »

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Palmerston Island: keeping it in the family

June 20, 2019 By Gareth Johnson Leave a Comment

Palmerston Island: William Marsters and family

Having grown up fairly near the infamous Isle of Sheppey in Kent, jokes about island folk being a bit inbred has always been a gag that keeps on giving. To return to the example of Sheppey, there was even an entire website (www.sheppeyscum.com) that was basically all about the island being full of inbred criminals.… Full Story »

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7 signs you might be a travel junkie

June 20, 2019 By Gareth Johnson Leave a Comment

Travel Junkie

Remember in your teens, when drinking in the park was the best thing ever? Then you got old enough to blag your way into bars (or, if you were unlucky, had to wait until you were legal) and sitting in the park never seemed quite as appealing again. For me, becoming a travel junkie was… Full Story »

Filed Under: Adventure Travel, blog, Expat Life, Extreme Travel, Featured, Travel, Weird World, World Tagged With: abkhazia, Travel Junkie

Albanian bunkers: a shaggy dog story

June 6, 2019 By admin Leave a Comment

Albanian bunkers

Warning: article contains disturbing images Little UFO-shaped bunkers dot the roadside throughout the country of Albania; great cavernous Albanian bunkers are carved into the sides of mountains and web-like tunnels weave beneath the city streets. Between the 1960s and the 1980s, more than 170,000 were built. In a country about one eighth the size of… Full Story »

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