Travelblips

Most Impressive Features: Colorado, Central Alaska in the autumn, skiing in the Rockies, cheap electronic merchandise and cars, Dale Terbush (my favourite painter)
Loser Features: Chocolate, the fact that people transiting through the US (that is, normally wouldn’t have to leave the departure lounge) have to go through customs and collect their bags – come on!!!!
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Most Impressive Feature: The past, BBC Radio
Loser Feature: The present
Best Gastronomic Delight: Scones with jam and clotted cream (disguised under many names, but generally “Cornwall” or “Devonshire tea”)
The people: Generational split… The younger generation appear to be terribly wrapped in some sort of desperate ‘me’ culture where all they care for is to be being [...]

Most Impressive Features: The mosques, the bazaars, the golf courses
Loser Feature: Having to dress with long sleaves and trousers in THAT heat…
Time spent there: 1 week
Comments: Imagine Aladdin flying through the white heat of the desert on his magic carpet, to suddenly find himself hovering over a green grassy oasis dotted with little flags. Such [...]

Most Impressive Features: Preservation and diversity of history
Loser Feature: The persistent ‘charming’ men (who really only wanted access to my citizenship!)
Time spent there: Not enough…
Comments: Having only visited a tiny snippet of western Turkey, there is still plenty I can’t comment on. All I had time to appreciate was the crash course in history – [...]

Most Impressive Features: The mountains in spring (but the people are strong competition for most impressive feature!)
Loser Feature: Dust storms, Chinese repression
Best Gastronomic Delight: Still searcing – the boiling of everything (e.g. stomach, cocks comb, pigs feet, pigs ears, chicken bones, duck fatty skin, intestine…) but meat off animals in chilly and oil doesn’t exactly [...]