William Boulding Translation and Teaching

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17/03/2018

Hello, dear readers. This is strange. We’re not on the move. We’ve been in the same place for 6 days, so there’s not been a natural break in proceedings to update you AND we’ve got another 2 days before we finally make it to New Zealand. Most importantly, we’ve crossed the equator and are now having to do handstands all the time here in the southern hemisphere and wear special harnesses to stop us falling off this side of the flat earth. [ 3,454 more words ]

Hello, dear readers. This is strange. We’re not on the move. We’ve been in the same place for 6 days, so there’s not been a natural break in proceedings to update you AND we’ve got another 2 days b…

10/03/2018

Willkommen zurück liebe Leser. Wir sitzen gerade in den Carlton Gardens in Melbourne, vollgefressen mit Seafood Salat und schauen der Natur beim Fressen vs Gefressen werden zu (Möwe gegen Ente – harter Kampf) während ich jetzt versuche die mittlerweile acht Tage in Melbourne R***e passieren zu lassen. Nachdem wir Ho Chi Minh mit dem Nachtbus am Abend wieder erreicht hatten und in unser Hotel einchecken wollten, wurden wir freundlich darauf hingewiesen, dass das Hotel voll sei und wir nun in ein anderes Hotel gebracht werden. [ 2,149 more words ]

Willkommen zurück liebe Leser. Wir sitzen gerade in den Carlton Gardens in Melbourne, vollgefressen mit Seafood Salat und schauen der Natur beim Fressen vs Gefressen werden zu (Möwe gegen Ente – ha…

04/03/2018

Liebe Leser und willkommen zurück. Wie soll es mal wieder anders sein - wir sitzen in einem Bus! Der Bus sollte eigentlich ein Zug, Flugzeug oder Motorroller sein, alles eben, bloß kein Bus – aber dazu später mehr. Am Flughafen angekommen stellten wir fest, dass wir viel zu früh da waren – die minimale Verspätung unseres Fluges noch nicht mal mit einberechnet. [ 2,181 more words ]

Liebe Leser und willkommen zurück. Wie soll es mal wieder anders sein – wir sitzen in einem Bus! Der Bus sollte eigentlich ein Zug, Flugzeug oder Motorroller sein, alles eben, bloß kein Bus –…

27/02/2018

There isn’t really enough space to get comfortable in my bunk on this double-bunk sleeper bus. Each of the 35 travellers has their own bed, with two rows on the sides next to the windows and a central row, which is where I’m sitting. I’m on the second of two buses from Hoi An to Ho Chi Minh City, and have had about 4 hours’ sleep in total. [ 2,875 more words ]

There isn’t really enough space to get comfortable in my bunk on this double-bunk sleeper bus. Each of the 35 travellers has their own bed, with two rows on the sides next to the windows and a cent…

25/02/2018

I’m wet and cold, but not unhappy. Wet, not because it’s raining dear readers, but because I’ve just been for a swim in our lovely (so far) hotel pool in Hoi An, and have only been driven upstairs because a) a child, who seems to have whooping cough but decided swimming would be his activity of choice today, hawked the brownish contents of his alveoli into the water where I would have been swimming and b) the temperature has dropped to a ‘frigid’ 24 degrees. [ 2,831 more words ]

I’m wet and cold, but not unhappy. Wet, not because it’s raining dear readers, but because I’ve just been for a swim in our lovely (so far) hotel pool in Hoi An, and have only been driven upstairs…

25/02/2018

Okay, zurück zur besagten Bushaltestelle in Sihanouk Ville, von der wir, diesmal mit dem Mekong Express Bus, nach Ho Chi Minh City aufbrachen. Der Minivan war dieses Mal um einiges bequemer und nicht bis oben hin zugepackt mit Gepäck, Reiskochern und Musikanlagen – eine nette Abwechslung. Unser Weg führte uns als Erstes zurück nach Phnom Penh, wo wir unseren Minivan in einen XL Bus upgradeten und uns dann weiter in Richtung Vietnam aufmachten. [ 2,527 more words ]

Okay, zurück zur besagten Bushaltestelle in Sihanouk Ville, von der wir, diesmal mit dem Mekong Express Bus, nach Ho Chi Minh City aufbrachen. Der Minivan war dieses Mal um einiges bequemer und nic…

21/02/2018

Just sitting in the middle of the front three passenger seats of a very nicely air-conditioned van on the road to Phnom Penh again, where we’re going to change to get to Ho Chi Minh. We’ve had quite an eventful morning, dear readers, so I thought I’d explain all while on this epic 12-hour daytime bus journey past stalls of fruit and vegetables in the Cambodian countryside. [ 1,579 more word ]

Just sitting in the middle of the front three passenger seats of a very nicely air-conditioned van on the road to Phnom Penh again, where we’re going to change to get to Ho Chi Minh. We’ve had quit…

19/02/2018

I left you last time, dear readers, as we’d just boarded the cramped little bus to Sihanoukville, a one-night-stopover on the way to Koh Rong, a relative newcomer to the tourism scene, having opened its first hotel(s) around 2010, when I was still able to drink a lot and the 80s had yet to come back into fashion. We arrived in Sihanoukville sweaty and exhausted – the Hilux hadn’t left us much room to relax in. [ 2,157 more words ]

I left you last time, dear readers, as we’d just boarded the cramped little bus to Sihanoukville, a one-night-stopover on the way to Koh Rong, a relative newcomer to the tourism scene, having opene…