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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 su...

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 ou...

Bollywood Days

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Please note Blogger garbles text after crossing so many borders. I'm sorry but to continually correct the errors becomes too big a job after a while. Welcome to readers from Jamaica Mumbai! Mumbai! This entry on GuerillaZ is taken from from two trips to Mumbai with some months in between. I don't think I could have smoothly negotiated the city so easily in one trip. ,         Watch the Cricket in the Maidan Park Whilst Drinking Lime Soda ,         Visit the Dhobi Ghats and the Ghetto Side to India for Another ,         Watch a Movie and Stroll Along Marine Drive ,         Visit the Jain Temple and the Lotus Tank Hill on Bollywood. ,         Take a Boat trip to Elephanta Island After months in the cold, damp streets of Londo...