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Tipping: one place that gets it right

I view tipping with a sense of distaste and see it as a sad legacy of a class system that should have died out decades ago. In a nutshell I don’t see why service staff aren’t paid a decent salary … Continue reading

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The smiling faces of Laos

Among my hundreds of photos from a trip I seem to have relatively few of people. I still can’t get over that discomfort of asking someone for a photo, even when they seem happy about it, and often stand back … Continue reading

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The single item from home that people miss most while travelling

Arriving in a new place, our senses are alive to the strange sense, sights and sounds that surround us. We revel in the unknown and absorb our environment and all its surprises. The joys of travel are all about the … Continue reading

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