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Beyond the Iron Curtain

I’ve recently been focusing on Eastern Europe and the former Soviet states, having rewritten or written pages anew on Ukraine, Turkmenistan, Estonia, Latvia, Russia, Poland and the Czech Republic. Slovakia also fits the bill, but was previously published as part of a joint trip to Vienna in 2013. I visited some of these places twenty
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Subcontinental sojourns

Refreshed pages are now up covering my travels across the Indian subcontinent, including Nepal, Sri Lanka and of course India itself. These trips all took place across a four-year period, not by any design, but living in Dubai made the area much more readily accessible, and I was happy to take advantage. I’ve not been to the
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Off to the Euros

Following conversion of all my old Africa pages including Tunisia, I’ve put some proper effort into my European pages – given that they’re the closest to home, it’s only fair. Andorra and Monaco date back to my time living in Valencia in 2003; visits to France, Paris and the French Alps are now well represented
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…and the home of the brave

My complete set of pages on the United States of America is now online, not just the sixteen pages from the old site but several new additions, including Seattle, Minneapolis, New York, Washington D.C. plus Hawaii‘s Big Island and Maui. This puts me at still only around 21% of the old site converted, but I’m
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Global expansionist agenda

Things are starting to get moving, as I now have 46 pages online – mostly straight conversions from the old site, but a handful with some updates and tweaks, new photos and intra-links etc. I think I’ll be making more changes along the way, rather than converting everything then going back to the starts to
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Malaysia

Tropical Southeast Asian nation with rich resources, tremendous biodiversity and popular tourist destinations
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Platinum Coast

The shining sands and glittering resorts of the west coast of Barbados
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Holetown

First town in Barbados and the centre of the Platinum Coast
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Bridgetown

Caribbean capital named for its indigenous bridge
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Barbados

Eastern coral outpost of the Lesser Antilles
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Bocas del Toro

Tropical islands from another time on Panama’s Caribbean coast
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Panama Canal

Globally-critical shipping route and engineering marvel bisecting an entire country
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Panama City

Shining city on the Pacific Coast, guarding the mouth of the canal
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