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Love, Death and Kimchi on the Busan Perimeter

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North - East Asia Love Hotel Japan and Korea are quite big on 'love hotels.' You only have to read Murakami's After Dark to Understand the nature of 'love hotels.' They are pay by the hour establishments. I stayed in mine in South Korea for three days. I wondered why the baseball female visitors wore caps pulled-down bug-eyed sunglasses and large. Why the hotel reception was a hatch simultaneously call up taxis and drank coffee in 7-11 Styrofoam take-away coffee cups. Joytel: on the Busan Perimeter The Nakdong River The Nakdong River  was important in the Korean War (25th June 1950 - 27th July 1953). The Battle of Naktong Bulge was  an engagement between the US and North Korean  Forces early in the Korean War from August 5-19, 1950 in the vicinity of Yongsan (Yeongsan  county) and the Naktong river in South Korea . It was a part of the Battle of Pusan ​​Perimeter  and was one of several large engagements fought

The South of France: Nezingnan L'eveque

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Welcome to readers from Iceland and Saudi Arabia Nezinghan L'eveque A quite beautiful part of the world. You can sit here with a coffee, write blogs and take in this view over over Languedoc vineyards toward the Mediterranean Sea some 12 km away. If you like tea as well as travel visit Guerilla's sister site Singing Bird Tea at: http://singingbirdsingingbird.blogspot.com/2014/10/tokyo-story.html Nezingnan L'eveque village from the north. With my mother at Cap D'agde. A selection of wines from a domain at Vias. Happy Travelling!

Sai Gon Fishing

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A warm welcome to readers from South Sudan and Argentina Saigon Ho Chi Minh City The thing about Saigon is ... it is a place of sharp contradictions. It is exhilarating. Magical. Extraordinarily friendly. Commercially dishonest, polluted and remorseless. Beautiful but chaotic. Peaceful and noisy. The giant Buddha at Giac Lam Pagoda Prayers at the Giac Lam pagoda  during Vesak Viet Rap Style - this video filmed in Saigon 'Just as I' by Karik https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ2M12BeKX4 Freestyle by Karik et al - with images inside Benh Thanh Market https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix26RJ1cfOI Most of Vietnamese music is romantic. Even the rock band Buc Tuong cannot help but play slow, wistful songs. It sounds soppy until you remember the resolve of the people here. All that compassion and yearning becomes focussed on the object. My friend Nam  is my music adviser here. One or two have sug

Who Will Run the Frog Temple?

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"Selamat Datang"  to readers from Kenya, Venezuela and New Caledonia "Freedom" sung by Anthony Hamilton and Eleyna Boynton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bdOTUocn5w Indonesia KLM are a solid airline. When the aircraft landed at Denpasar airport in Bali they put this over the public address system. 'Happy' by Pharell Williams https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_75VGPxUPI A Dutch guy, in his late middle years started dancing and who was I to leave him alone in this noble endeavour? Pretty cool from KLM and the other passengers seemed to enjoy the spectacle. * When I pointed out to the groundsman of the property where we stayed  the animal mess on the doormat he said, matter-of-factly, 'Civet cat.' The false feline probably getting her own back for its domestic cousins being ​​force-fed coffee cherries while incarcerated in a cramped cage on a farm somewhere in appalling conditions.

The Volcanoes Above Us

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Blogger does not respond to well to the crossing of borders and the changing of languages ​​than if capital letters, extra spaces and chaotic word order. the text it is playing havoc with my blogger writing. Sorry about that. It's infuriating. Welcome to readers from the Kingdom of Cambodia,  Morocco and  the Democratic Republic of Congo Mt Agung, the holiest on Bali The Volcanoes Above Us The jet engines work very neat separation at the beginning of this track -   Roche  Mimosa Remix by Sebastien Tellier. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuQqITF1u2E It's difficult to know where to start with Bali in Indonesia. It's the only Hindu island in all the thousands of Indonesian islands. Where there was, on a regular basis, plenty of brutal cockfighting. Where the people are so friendly they can not stop smiling. On an island so beautiful you have keep moving around it to find more beauty. And hunt out work