The World’s Smallest Town: A few Beers in Betoota, Outback Australia
Central Australia is the home of the road train. The world’s largest and heaviest road-legal vehicles, many exceed 50 metres (165 ft) long and...
One Surreal Day in North Korea (Part 2)
...from part 1... Bleak, dilapidated Soviet era apartment buildings line the streets of Kaesong, the tallest being twenty storeys. The roads are impressively wide,...
Christmas in South Korea
Christmas had come once again and, as was tradition I told my wife it just didn't feel like Christmas. Once again she asked what exactly...
Is the Middle East Dangerous?
Short answer... yes. I mean... considering sharks, football hooligans, Japanese Encephalitis, hippopotami, divorce lawyers, falling anvils, people who hang around outside airports... pretty much...
The Counter-Enclave of Nahwa, UAE
A rare geopolitical oddity, the counter-enclave is basically a country within a country within a country, or part thereof... more or less. There is...
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The world is a scary place. That's what I keep hearing anyway, and right now, the omnipresent threat to my personal safety, freedom, employment,...
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A young Korean friend asked for a little help with a short essay he had written for his university English class. We chatted over...
The World’s Worst Mass Murderers
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I had a White People Problem in Africa
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Christmas in Oman
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