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    The magical world of far away places

    News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 04/04/2021

    » Earlier this week I was chatting with friends about which places around the globe captured their imagination most when they were kids. One was fascinated by Mandalay, while another said Pondicherry caught his eye. Zanzibar was another name that cropped up.

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    It's 'Sherpa time' without the mountain

    News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 31/05/2020

    » Towards the end of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's uncomfortable grilling by MPs last week he complained that preparing for the meeting had taken up a lot of "Sherpa time". As it seems unlikely Boris is planning an Everest expedition, the "Sherpas" he was referring to are apparently those people with the unenviable task of helping him prepare for such questioning, or more accurately, the ones who do all the hard work.

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    The golden age of the 'Hippie Trail'

    News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 08/09/2019

    » Travelling long distances overland has always captured the imagination and it seems the passion still remains. Three Land Rovers stopped over in Bangkok earlier this week in what is being called "The Last Expedition" which is taking on the more than 14,000km journey overland from Singapore to London.

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    Thai railways back on track ... well, sort of

    News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 15/12/2013

    » Good news from the State Railway of Thailand. Since they reopened the northern route a fortnight ago, only one train has fallen off the rails, which isn't bad going for them.

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    Far-away places with strange sounding names

    News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 03/02/2013

    » As a little kid, one place-name that always fascinated me was Timbuktu. I hadn't a clue where it was, which perhaps was the attraction. In those days I suspect few people could pick it out on a map, despite the name frequently cropping up in discussion of all things distant and mysterious.

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