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Hello everyone, this is our mailing list for the month of November. This month we hear from Kurt Sherwood on his recent trip to the world’s newest nation East Timor. But first we’ll discuss our destination of the month.
East Timor - by Kurt Sherwood
I was just a junior in college when I first decided I wanted to go to the tiny nation of East Timor (or its official name, Timor Leste). For some reason I had decided to study Portuguese at the University of Washington and my professor had just spent the summer of 2000 volunteering in East Timor shortly after their referendum for independence. This was a horrific time when bands of Indonesian troops raped and pillaged their way out of the country. Despite these tragic events, the videos we watched of my professor’s interaction with the East Timorese showed a warm and inviting people who were full of hope for a better tomorrow. Upon my visit eight years later, I had high expectations, and the East Timorese did not disappoint.
I recently traveled to South Korea with a friend of mine and fellow contributor to Travelers Digest, Kurtis Sherwood. While there we decided to seize the once in a life time opportunity to travel across the DMZ and into the world’s most secretive state… North Korea!
It’s not going to be easy for me to explain North Korea, it’s truly a country like no other. But I digress.
Our trip started early at four-thirty in the morning in central Seoul. There we waited for the bus for our pre-arranged tour to the North Korean city of Kaesong. Normally guided tours aren’t our style, but that is the only way Americans and South Koreans are allowed to visit the DPRK. As it turns out our nations are not in the good graces of Kim Jong Il.
Hi my name is Dakota Smith & I work for Travelers Digest. Recently me & my girlfriend (Jasmine) took a trip across the Iberian Peninsula stretching from Barcelona to our finishing point Lisbon. We would only have one week to complete our trip, but after careful research I thought I had figured out how.
I had been living in England with my girlfriend at the time so we decided to fly on EasyJet from London to Barcelona, I mean after all we just had to see the city where the opening shot of Justin Timberlake’s video for Sexyback took place.
Hi my name is Dakota Smith & I work for Travelers Digest. Recently I decided to take a trip to Egypt with my girlfriend Jasmine, & this is my account of our trip.
Just like most people, I had always wanted to visit Egypt. The pyramids, desert landscapes, the Red Sea coast, the Nile. Eventually all this proved too much & I made the leap. I had been living in England with my girlfriend when I decided we should visit Egypt. The cheapest flight I could find was on ThomsonFly from London to Luxor and was about 200 Pounds R/T per person. The entirety of our trip was to last one April week, & I was determined to make the most of it.
Hi my name is Dakota Smith & I work for Travelers Digest. Recently I decided to take a trip to Morocco with my girlfriend Jasmine, & this is my account of our trip. I had been living in England with my girlfriend when we decided that it would be interesting to visit Morocco & experience some of the North African magic made famous in so many countless films.
Due to our schedules we would only have one week in March to visit all of Morocco. So careful planning was a must. Thankfully travel planning is more or less what I do, so I quickly devised a plan that would have to serve as out itinerary while in the nation.
Name: J.J.
Question: My wife and I are searching for transportation options from Oslo, Norway to Grebbestad, Sweden (Approximately 200km south of Oslo on the west coast of Sweden). We would use a rental car if there was a drop-off option. We’ll have 4 pieces of luggage on our trip. Information on transportation between smaller towns/villages has been difficult/impossible. Please help.
