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Traffic signs – Cuba

Not often you see traffic signs like these … But they are everywhere in Cuba – reflecting the more traditional modes of transport that many Cubans use.

Traffic signs - Cuba

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Free drinking water – Antigua
Bylgermany July 6, 2016December 30, 2025

Anyone who has spent any time at all travelling in Latin America knows that the water out of the tap is usually not drinkable (Santiago in Chile is the only place I’ve trusted it). It is one of the key problems throughout Central and South America and it is the reason I bought my Travel Tap microfilter…

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The Abandoned Bluie East Two Airfield in East Greenland
Bylgermany June 1, 2018December 30, 2025

On Day 5 of the 12-day Unplugged Wilderness Trek with Greenland Adventures by Icelandic Mountain Guides, I visited an abandoned WWII airfield code-named Bluie East Two. Read more about the history of the site, its current state and its future in my latest blog post at Guide to Greenland: “Exploring Bluie East Two – an…

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Jewelry making in Conversation classes
Bylgermany March 25, 2016December 30, 2025

My conversation teacher for the third week at La Mariposa Escuela de Español (we change conversation teachers each week) was Layda. In our first class, we started talking about interests and I found out she’d recently done a community course on beaded jewelry making. Given my love of jewelry I asked her more about it and she suggested that…

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First experience in Cuba
Bylgermany July 22, 2016December 30, 2025

Arrived in Cuba and decided to get out of my confort zone by asking some other passengers whether they wanted to share a taxi into Havana (it’s US$25). I struck lucky on the second try and the added bonus was that the taxi we got was one of the old 1950s ones (those ones are…

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Exploring Persepolis – Iran
Bylgermany June 14, 2017December 30, 2025

For many people, the highlights of Iran (apart from the people) are the mosques and medrassahs and the blue tiles that adorn such buildings. However, much of this architecture was built after Timur (Tamerlane) cut swathes through the region, and given that he had his capital in Samarkand (Uzbekistan) the most impressive examples are actually…

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Easter Island – Part 3
Bylgermany January 3, 2017December 30, 2025

Back on the e-Bike today but not as much riding 🙂 First stop – Puna Pau – where they quarried the red basalt for the topknots (pukaos). It is thought that these represented hair rather than hats, and seem to be very late additions to the Moais (only a fraction of the Moais actually…

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