This all started in Minsk with my CouchSurfing host Alex’s Mum, Olga. Alex wasn’t home from his tutoring work, so Olga thought …
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My first impression of Odesa was not good. It was back in 2006 when I was merely transiting on the way to …
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“Only First-Class!” Well darn, that wasn’t in the script – there were no other berths on the train from Poltava to Odesa. …
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Biogeography & Vegetation
The antifragile (?) tree-ferns of Omatepe, Nicaragua
by Mike Poleby Mike Pole“We’ll follow these guys – they’re three local hoodlums”, This from my local guide on Omatepe Island, Nicaragua. I was sitting behind …
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The first Salvadorean who I asked about visiting his country advised me to avoid its capital, San Salvador, entirely. “I love my …
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The news coming out of Nicaragua back in October 2018, was uncertain. Violence from the political situation seemed to have abated, but …
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There’s nothing to focus a man’s mind like an execution in the morning – or the knowledge that it will cost $500 …
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What happens when you make the serious charge of Academic Misconduct at the University of Otago? I decided to find out. In …
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I’m no gamer, but….. ***** Mexico City’s National Museum of Anthropology is simply stunning. It’s task is to somehow present the bewildering …
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Autobiography & Travel
A Short Walk in the Lamington Kush – The Stintson plane wreck, Australia
by Mike Poleby Mike Pole“If I had a camera I could take a photo and show guests what my uncle’s legs looked like after he found …