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Travel Writing Publishers

September 11, 2009 · 4 comments

Writing about travel to fund your own travels is a dream job for many people. However articles don’t publish themselves, you have to go out there and get your name known yourself.

A publisher who will always publish your work is yourself, setting up your own blog is the ideal start to a travel writing career and acts as a online Read the rest! \(^u^)/ →

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Freedom in Fremantle

September 6, 2009 · 10 comments

“Put all your posessions in the bag, including clothes” The prison officer barked at the new recruits, “and sit down on the bench”. Alex and Robert did not have a chance against the 4 baton armed prison officers as they were issued their new clothing for their new home.

A full moon shines over Fremantle prison

A full moon shines over Fremantle prison

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Award Winning Design

September 1, 2009 · 6 comments

For the afternoon I (upon reccomendation of a girl in my hostel) went to the Red Dot Museum. There is only 2 of these in the world, the other being in Germany, so I was expecting a bit of a treat and a unique experience. Certainly outside the traffic building (named this because it used to be the base of traffic police in Singapore) it was brightly painted in a red hue and attention seeking.

An award winning chair

An award winning chair

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Singapore Museum of Art

August 15, 2009 · 1 comment

On arrival at the Singapore Art Museum (SAM) I noticed the large bronze statue of a man with 2 children above the entrance (Used to be a school and the man is, certainly hard to miss. I was fortunate enough to time my arrival (2pm) with the start of a free tour presented by Read the rest! \(^u^)/ →

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Cambodian flag hanging at half-mast in the Killing Fields

Cambodian flag hanging at half-mast in the Killing Fields

During the Khmer Rouge rule of the country from 1975 to 1979, immediately after the end of the Vietnam war, over 200,000 people were executed and buried in the killing fields just outside Phnom Penh, the captial of Cambodia. The total deaths of the regime is estimated to be Read the rest! \(^u^)/ →

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