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Today's guest post is used with permission from Monte Celia Parker - Caio, Monte! - who wrote this post for her personal blog, while studying Italian in Bologna, 4,000 miles from her boyfriend. What she recommends for maintaining a good relationship longdistance is personal, but I thought there were enough great ideas to be worth repeating, …
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if you write time travel, you'll want to see this - where it began and how to construct a timeline
See how video enhances a poem, how to develop your own poetry for this
Just stumbled upon this curious but engaging poem on the subject of travel by Irfan Merchant,(published in online mag for unusual poetry or photography, The Undertow Review.) Carousel O anxious International Arrivals clustered around the baggage carousel, watch hopefully the thick black rubber veils which still reveal nothing! Another soul waiting to cross the …
How do you fund dreams such as travelling the world? Inspired with wanderlust, Jenna Spesard built a Tiny House with her partner, they spent a year towing it throughout America together. It's now in a fixed location but still helps her travel internationally for 3 months of the year, as it saves her so much …
Typewriter short animation by Lizzy Hobbs shown at Edinburgh Film Festival 2017. Shows the solo flight of Amy Johnson to Australia in 1930. Created with Underwood 315 typewriter.
"Traveller, there is no path" - how a political refugee is accompanied in life by a poem, speaking to him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01Urhf71bRg
An airport poem/story of one journey and a tiny temporary community experience. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V5xyEt_RYA
I watched this brief video of Turkey and found it exhilerating and gorgeous and intriguing and like being abroad in a foreign land. And it reminded me that when someone travels with a real eye of curiosity - they bring something worthwhile home to others, to share. (And the editing is phenomenal). https://vimeo.com/108018156
Now here's a game we can all play when on a long bus or car journey.... in the UK or Britain-outside-Europe or exEurope/GB or whatever we're calling ourselves by the time you read this..... anyhow most car licence plates have 3 letters together - and it's possible to amuse oneself by thinking of funny phrases …
