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before I started traveling, everyone told me to go to france. after I started traveling, everyone told me to visit slovenia. lake bled, specificaly.

the metric they're using for happiness is "income satiation" - when more money doesn't increase a self-reported "life evaluation" score. pretty cool.

I'm very surprised that Singapore is #4.

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the article presents many interesting considerations, statistics and conclusions surrounding this new travel record for such a brief article.

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India was literally unbelievable and I was just in one tiny town, I gotta see more of it.

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I wouldn't label the top right quadrant "worth it", but everything looks different depending on where you're coming from.

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to mute freshly dyed rugs to their desired colors, carpets are laid out in the sun across fields in Southern Turkey.

from a drone:

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25x18x18 meters(82x59x59 ft), two big giant rubber duckies floating in Kauhsiung bay highlighting the festival, created by Florentijn Hofman.

and there were hairbands and barrettes and bracelets and a hundred things duck-themed. it was a lot of fun.

idk where my pictures are, but this is exactly what they looked like. oh also i didn't know this festival was going on, i was just wandering around kaohsiung and saw a massive rubber ducky in the distance, and was confused until i arrived at the party. then still confused, but very happy.

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there are nets, they clean 'em all up after.

i always want to go to this and always remember it after it happens. i did get to see the Taiwan rubber ducky fair.

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Largest piggy bank in the world!

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Check it out in Pisa, Italy

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Malaysia was the most recent for me, every sunset was borderline unbelievable.

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I sure can't!

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You buy a voucher, they book your destination and lodgings. Lottery system with three tiers of destinations. $209 per person but 2 person-minimum, so you need a gung-ho travel partner. Sounds fun enough.

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I did not find India anywhere near as dirty as people described, in or outside cities in Orissa. I think its “dirtiness” reputation comes down to literal dirt roads rather than paved roads, making food with their hands, and from descriptions, a helping of ignorant racism.

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go forth

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Old news. Still cool.

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Karl Bushby left Chile in 1998, headed home to the UK with only two rules: no transport to advance, and no going home until he arrived on foot.

It is an odyssey worthy of Ulysses himself, a saga fit for the old Nordic Gods … the spirit of young British men and women to do amazing and slightly crazy things is not yet crushed, but still alive and well.

— Frederick Forsyth

The ex-paratrooper from Kingston upon Hull, England, had never done anything quite like this. Who had?

On the first of November 1998 he walked out of Punta Arenas, Chile with a few hundred dollars in his pocket, turned north for home, and stepped onto the line.

A line drawn on a map: four continents, a frozen sea, deserts, mountains, jungles, and over 50,000 km of unknown.

The plan never changed: keep walking, swim when he must, until the line reaches his mother's front door.

No transport to advance. No compromising the route.

Stay on mission, get home.

On 5 October 2026, Karl reached British soil at Shakespeare Beach near Dover after swimming the English Channel.

Approximately 400 km remained to Hull at the landing, with the route leading to his mother's home there.

https://karlbushby.world/

#journey #KarlBushby

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Karl Bushby left Chile in 1998, headed home to the UK with only two rules: no transport to advance, and no going home until he arrived on foot.

It is an odyssey worthy of Ulysses himself, a saga fit for the old Nordic Gods … the spirit of young British men and women to do amazing and slightly crazy things is not yet crushed, but still alive and well.

— Frederick Forsyth

The ex-paratrooper from Kingston upon Hull, England, had never done anything quite like this. Who had?

On the first of November 1998 he walked out of Punta Arenas, Chile with a few hundred dollars in his pocket, turned north for home, and stepped onto the line.

A line drawn on a map: four continents, a frozen sea, deserts, mountains, jungles, and over 50,000 km of unknown.

The plan never changed: keep walking, swim when he must, until the line reaches his mother's front door.

No transport to advance. No compromising the route.

Stay on mission, get home.

On 5 October 2026, Karl reached British soil at Shakespeare Beach near Dover after swimming the English Channel.

Approximately 400 km remained to Hull at the landing, with the route leading to his mother's home there.

#travel #journey #KarlBushby

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i’m on my first cruise, and especially if you book last-minute, it is a great value. My ticket, including an inside stateroom(queen bed, end tables, work desk, private shower/bathroom, closet, mini fridge, tv), unlimited dining at a buffet and four restaurants, daily housekeeping, dance parties, live music, theater productions and musicals, a basketball court, jogging track, rope course, pool, hot tubs, board games, free jewelry, the travel itself to a few countries, and quite a few other events , is $65 dollars per night with Norwegian Cruise Lines, or $455 total for 7 nights

normal price is $185-$220 per night, so I’m easily saving a thousand bucks by booking a week before sail date. Everything I get are the same benefits that everybody who pays full price or more gets up until you’re paynig $700-$2000 per night, then you get a bigger room and an extra sun deck...they can keep it.

the discount, as far as I understand because you can find these prices and cheaper right now at the site I linked, occur 1 week before launch. So far the cheapest price I’ve seen is $47 per night, I believe on MSC, another cruise line.

cruiseplum includes all taxes, fees and extra bonuses in the search results, it’s a pretty amazing search engine for cruises now that I know it’s for real. I got some free internet and $150 in shore excursions, so discounted tours by the cruise(not using ‘em).

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opinions here? Not the list I would have made.

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a few of 'em anyway. i don't think i've ever seen an unenticing photo of croatian landscape.

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Panama's number one, that does make some sense to me: coastal raccoons. And Sushi Miyagi. And cost of living. Plus good food.

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non-EU students pay ~$300-$5000 USD tuition for English-language classes across Italy.

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