Mood:
caffeinatedTopic: Travel
"Sometimes a journey arises out of hope and instinct, the heady conviction, as your finger travels along the map: Yes, here and here . . . and here. These are the nerve-ends of the world, yet to follow the Silk Road is to follow a ghost. . . . It is not a single way, but many: a web of choices. Mine stretched seven thousand miles, and is occasionally dangerous."
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"Call it coincidence, or "consilience," if you prefer"..
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/entertainment/books/8545352.html
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Shadow-Silk-Road-Colin-Thubron/dp/0701173637
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Click the link above! Shadows on the Silk Road.
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The QE2 is to retire next year and become a big shop in Dubai.
The Guardian asks plainitivley: "The QE2 was the last beautiful ship - why are her successors so ugly?"
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