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Travel is all about the toilets: tips for female travellers

13 things no-one ever remembers to tell you for travel. Written for solo female travellers, but really for everyone.

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Readings from 2018

Some great writing for the intellectual omnivores and intrepid learners.

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Why I’m dropping the digital nomad label: A walk-through wandering and attitudes to travelling

Thoughts on travel ethics, first world travel privileges, remote work, and decolonising travel.

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The Microcosm of “Chineseness”: Culture, Media, Politics and Identity in the Story of Yanxi Palace

Political and cultural interpretations of China is the Story of Yanxi Palace 《延禧攻略》and what it means for Hong Kong, based on the article「愛國攻略」by Assistant Professor Wong Nim Yan 黃念欣 in MingPao.

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2016 Year in Review – A Photo Collection

A Chinese Canadian digital nomad’s reflections on travel and life in India, Tokyo and other parts of Japan, Hong Kong, and Vancouver.

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A Millennial’s Definition of Work in 15 Words

A millennial’s reflections on work based on answers to a keynote industry speech on leadership. This topic is in direct response to a CEO’s question to 4 millennials that she has worked with in her 10+ years of serving and working with young people.

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A Millennial’s Definition of Leadership: Some Thoughts

A millennial’s notes on leadership, success, and work based on answers to a keynote industry speech on leadership. Each section is in direct response to a CEO’s question to 4 millennials that she has worked with in her 10+ years of serving and working with young people.

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2019. Jimbocho in Tokyo. That feeling when crossing the threshold... #tokyolife #bookworm #bookstagram #japanlife #tokyo

According to the Tibetan calendar, the Buddha's day of birth, enlightenment, and passing occurred on June 17 this year. To mark the occasion, the devout trek up to the highest temple on earth, the Rongbuk Monastery, at the northern basecamp of Mount Everest, called Mount Qomolangma, ཇོ་མོ་གླང་མ and 珠穆朗瑪峰 to the people have worshipped it for centuries. All across the Tibetan Plateau, the holy fires will burn, tribes and pilgrims will gather, and new prayer flags will be unfurled in courtyards and splayed across mountain faces as an offering to the sky. On this holiest of days, we were blessed by the sacred mountain, so typically shy, with unfettered views as we approached from morning through the afternoon. #tibet #everest #珠穆朗瑪峰 #buddhism #pilgrimage #bluesky #mountains #himalayas

Any guesses at where this is? Tip, it's a UNESCO Heritage Site. The photo is in my new blog post (click on my profile link). Went against my nature and joined a tour. Unfortunately, that's the only way to see this place as a foreign national these days. But I was looking for much more than temples, which we got plenty of and thorough explanations about from both our local guides and our main tour guide (a bit of a bookworm, him). #temple #gold #architecture #asia #rooftops #fujifilm #china #wanderlust #西藏 #拉薩 #unescoworldheritage #bluesky #nofilter

It’s hard to arrive in Tokyo with a blank canvas. The world’s most populous city looms large in the global imagination, ascribed for decades by writers, filmmakers, and now the masses with smartphones. Even before we’ve landed, we’ve seen the city lights, the sushi in Bordain’s food tours, the crowds from every angle of Shibuya crossing, the “weird” and the “wonderful”, whatever those may be for each of us.⠀ ⠀ Virtually unheard of until the cafe boom at Kiyosumi-Shirakawa, Koto Ward is one of those forgotten backwaters where many a Tokyoite will stumble locating in their mind, before struggling further to find anything to say about. ⠀ ⠀ The Shitamachi, the Low City, defined by its dark and crowded, fire-prone alleys that bordered on expansive wetlands criss-crossed by waterways are where the early peoples of Edo gathered to serve the Shogunate, and later Meiji, courts. In the corners of nondescript streets and the ubituitous, unassuming canals, a walker can retrace the the city of merchants that laid the foundation of modern-day Tokyo.⠀ ⠀ As part of the Historical Tokyo Walks that follow Edo Tokyo cultural sites, the Nihonbashi-Fukagawa route (日本橋本所深川コース) comes from the Japanese website guide Sanpo Reikibun. The city has 23 Historical Tokyo Walks, one for each ward. My map has the English translation for the Japanese route summary as well as added some additional historical context or information. Major sites covered along the route include: Nihonbashi, Mitsukoshi flagship store, Tokyo Stock Exchange, haiku poet Mastuo Basho’s neighbourhood, the Fukagawa Fudoson, Tomioka Hachimangu, Kiyosumi Garden, Ryugoku Gokugikan, Former Yasuda Garden, Edo Tokyo Museum, Karamae Bridge. For anime watchers, the 3-Gatsu no Lion, Tsukumogami Kashimasu, Onihei Hanakcho. ⠀ ⠀ To get the map & route to walk Tokyo at your next visit! Go to my blog in my profile and search the piece: "Historical Tokyo Walk: Nihonbashi – Fukagawa"⠀ ⠀ https://buff.ly/2WY1gX1⠀ ⠀ #tokyotravel #tokyolife #historicaltokyo #japan_vacations #visitjapan #discovertokyo #explorejapan #igersjp #icu_japan #japan_of_insta #japantrip #historylover #worldhistory #ilovehistory #edotokyo #fukagawa #東京 #江東区 #深川 #日本橋

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