Tag: travelling
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MARRAKesH
”For you my friend, I will give you for cheap price”. The most famously used phrase we encountered during our visit, spoken in their unique Moroccan Arabic dialect. Five days was all we needed to explore one of the chief central cities of Morocco. Lights off, face down, music on. That was the mood in…
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THE DORMICE EFFECT
The beauty of Civil Engineering isn’t all about designing and building structures. It’s also about preserving life or nature as we know it. This week I witnessed the preservation of life at one of the sites I had the pleasuring of supervising. BACK STORY : A train driver identified a lanslide sliding down towards the…
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Lisbon – part 1
Colourful, Homely, Cheap, History, Art, Hills, Bridge, Friendly, Memorable, Hostel and Fun. A list of adjectives and nouns that comes to mind whenever I think of Lisbon. Fun facts : My home town Sierra Leone was discovered by a Portuguese explorer – Pedro de Sintra in 1462. Hence, one could say it was inevitable to…
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The Era of Metamorphosis.
Years back, I had the pleasure of witnessing my little sis and Little bro dressing up for their first day in secondary school and straightaway..it gave me a feeling of Déjà vu. We all know that feeling – witnessing your siblings or kids growing up so fast. Where did time go?. The feeling of adrenaline…
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Pineda De Mar
When I arrived I was dumbfounded by how quiet and maze-like the town was! You could walk down a neighbourhood as if no one lives there. To me it struck me with a sense of freedom, fresh air and vacancy. Ironically, this maze-like town is full of neighbours who know each other very well, drawing…
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Florence – Italy
Two things that comes to mind when someone mentions the city of Florence : Leonardo Da vinci & The Medici family. Well for me anyway. That’s probably because I watched the TV series _ ‘Da Vinci’s Demons’ for like 3 times, obsessively. A show that digs into the history of its people, rulers and at…
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A Walk To Gloucester & Cirencester
South west of England is a county called Gloucestershire. A county that houses other towns within it circumference known for it medieval history and Forest of dean (which we would get into on ‘Nature’ another time) . Two of which I visited were Gloucester and Cirencester. Lets start with Gloucester. At first I didn’t know…
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