Travelogues

Traveling in the Time of Coronavirus

More travel restrictions mean more time to create our own journeys. Don’t be sad, everything is still possible with a little bit of imagination. Let’s not let the virus win. Where should we go tomorrow?

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Janny has been our part-time domestic helper for the past five years, making our place spick and span every Friday afternoon, staying four hours each time.

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Is there a better way to stick it to the Croatians who have to see their team lose to England in the opening match for Group D of Euro 2020/2021?

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On the eve of the start of Euro 2020, I made a pilgrimage to The Blue Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey.

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A trip to Ginza for me is incomplete without visiting the Akio Nagasawa Gallery and Art Gallery M84.

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The last time Salim saw his wife Jorna and their two daughters was one year ago, when he went on his home leave. This was before COVID-19 went out of hand.

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On November 11, 2011, or 11.11.11, I spent my evening watching couples swaying away in the town square in Foshan, Guangzhou, a Chinese city better known for 武步 silky pugilistic movements than 舞步 dance steps.

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In the last week of September 1991, I was a participant in the 43rd Missouri Photo Workshop held in St Genevieve, Missouri.

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Of course, we can all hope.

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Can’t think of a better reward for myself after climbing up and down the Perfume Pagoda.

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What is beautiful enough to entice a suburban professional traveler/housewife/mother/wife from Cleveland to drop everything she was doing and fly halfway around the world for?

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I am trying to mind my own business at Repulse Bay, Hong Kong, fully intended on reading an issue of The Guardian.

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My three Ah Lian friends from Seremban have been talking about this place for many years but could never get themselves organized.

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It is understandable to fall asleep in a beautiful and breezy place like the Iguazu Falls.

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If her big sister goes to NYC, the youngest one has to go to NYC.

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When Alexandra asked to be sent to New York City, I didn’t quite understand her choice.

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How do you remain so cheerful in this miserable weather in Copenhagen Yu-Mei?

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什么样的心情?

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A beautiful Irish woman having tea in the company of cherry blossoms.

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I told Kuan Fung: “踮厝才会赢.” She said, “Take me to 泡温泉 before summer please.” “您要好浴照?” 就给您好浴照.

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When is a good time for a meeting with Choya, Asahi, Suntory, Kirin and Yamazaki?

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Sitting outside the Vatican on Good Friday, praying for world peace, good health and dreaming of a miracle end to Covid-19.

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When a beautiful woman tells you she wants to go to a beach, you don’t ask why, you don’t ask when.

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Social distancing, circuit breaker, WFH, etc etc etc. What does it mean to the individuals?

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Not every kid is liking the temporary closure of schools. 

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Finally got to sing at the Sydney Opera House.

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Good Morning New York!

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My friend Letticia found out I was able to fly to Paris and asked to tag along.

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Good morning world! Always wanted to do the downward dog on the beautiful beach in Goa.

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Faizal Bin A Bakar said he really wanted to be in Barcelona and I assumed he meant Camp Nou.

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Thanks to sincere invitation and immaculate arrangement by Jimmy Sng, I managed a Crash Landing into North Korea this morning.

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Whose bright idea was it to go to Nakameguro in this shivering weather?

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In Naoshima doing Yogic breathing by Yayoi Kusama’s Yellow Pumpkin.

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More travel restrictions mean more time to create our own journeys.