Like a lot of graduates, my friend Sterling Chan hasn’t managed to find a job in the recession. So he’s spent a lot of his post-university summer fishing, on the west coast of Canada. In the video below a humpback whale gets a little too close for comfort.
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Extreme whale watching
TYSKAB #2: your feet will disintegrate
I’ve only just come to terms with this one, actually. For some reason, facing death by a large Irish man was acceptable; it’s something that can happen any day of the week and has done since we first tried to cow the Celts under British rule. However, the notion that my feet were left...
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Hooligans and football – the Argentinean way
“Don´t worry, he´s killed ten people so you´ll be safe.” We were in La Boca, home to Boca Juniors Football club and reputably one of the most dangerous areas in Buenos Aires. I felt anything but safe. Why we ended up walking around La Boca with a possible murderer was due to our penny...
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TYSKAB # 1: you will meet psychopaths
An Englishman, an Irishman and an Australian walked into the hostel. Sounds like the start of a joke, right? Not quite. They’d been travelling separately for months but met up somewhere in Eastern Europe, got on quite well and decided to go along together for the rest of their trips. Initially all seemed well,...
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Partying on the Danube: Exit Festival in Serbia
Having grown out of Reading Festival, tired of seeing fifteen year-olds ‘getting down’ to The Pigeon Detectives and The Klaxons, myself and several uni mates decided to take a punt on Exit Festival in Serbia. Although not as well publicised and thus not quite as mainstream as the likes of Benicassim, Rock Werchter and...
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No bed, no trains, but drugs and hookers
Barcelona is meant to be one of the best cities in Europe: modern, cosmopolitan and edgy enough to keep bleary-eyed twenty-something professionals packing out their bars at 5am yet still trudging into work, inexplicably fresh-faced, just a couple of hours later. It’s popular enough to keep tourists clocking in and out of its airports,...
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Not quite Sex and the City: Life in Paris
Ah Paris! The city that invented chic, the home of romance and glamour. I set off on my year abroad filled with excitement and apprehension in equal measure. I had been planning how to spend my year away from university for what felt like an eternity, but I soon realised that even the best-laid...
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Animals and Amazonia in Bolivia
It’s part of the Amazon, but not what you would expect. Instead of lush tropical jungle and endless rivers flowing towards the mighty Amazon river, much of Bolivia’s slice of the Amazon basin offers visitors a less typical Amazonian experience. For many Bolivia is hardly the first country that springs to mind when planning...
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Taxi Capers in South Africa
Having spent a highly leisurely week or so partying and wandering in South Africa’s ‘mother city’ it was time to leave. Me and my travel partner were on the final straight of our gap year and had two weeks to amble north to Johannesburg before flying home. We had booked coach tickets for the...
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