Europe offered an array of spectacular history on walking display. A chance to observe structures and lifestyles as they were, and have been, for hundreds to thousands of years. The awe-inspiring feeling of staring at monumental paintings from masters of years gone by was an opportunity that I will not quickly forget. It was an [...]
Posted on June 30th, 2009 by ryan
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It is just getting dark, and doing so early. The house is empty and dark, the oven light the only illumination in the kitchen, the bulb above me the other matching guide in the house. The Chili Peppers soothe out of my laptop, their newer work finally growing on me. I have hours until sleep [...]
Posted on June 28th, 2009 by ryan
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I had a blast in Europe searching for versions of my favourite character speaking other languages. I was lucky enough then that I managed to get a copy of Daredevil speaking French and speaking Italian. I was in a newsagent when I saw an advert on the wall. It seems that Spider-Man had an ongoing [...]
Posted on June 28th, 2009 by ryan
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I keep book lists of what I have read. Why do I do this? In Year 7 at high school we had to keep a log of all the books we read and when we reached a certain amount of pages then we were deemed to have read enough books for the year. It was [...]
Posted on June 23rd, 2009 by ryan
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I was catching the train from Paris into Regional France, more specifically a little place called Nantes. It was going to take a few trains to get us where we went, so we had a twenty minute stop in one relatively large train terminal. Besides dodge the birds and try our best not to make [...]
Posted on June 21st, 2009 by ryan
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I love me some reading, that’s never been a secret. But between working a full-time job teaching, and then trying to write full-time in the hours I find spare, my reading has been lacking in the vigour it once possessed. That all changed when I traveled for three weeks. I surprised myself at how much [...]
Posted on June 21st, 2009 by ryan
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During my European holiday I celebrated a birthday. This occasion saw me rise the ranks to someone who was, I would say in my opinion, past his mid-twenties and into his late-twenties. I altered my physiological form and became a twenty-seven year old. Not sure how good a thing that is. I’ll find out by [...]
Posted on June 18th, 2009 by ryan
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In fact, it was a holiday. France for one week, Italy for two, and it was all a sensational blast. I have never been to Europe, or really traveled as an adult, but I think I might have a taste for it now. It is a very cool sensation to walk through other countries and [...]
Posted on June 15th, 2009 by ryan
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