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Monday, July 21st, 2008Iraq is a west Asian country bordering Turkey in the north, Iran on the east, Syria and Jordan on the west and Saudia Arabia and Kuwait in the south. With rolling deserts covering the west and south-western parts of the country, and in the northern parts especially the eastern side Zagros, mountains, where farming is [...]
Japan’s Love for Hawaii and Waikiki Beach
Monday, July 21st, 2008My wife has a piggy bank, and like most Japanese women, she’s saving for a trip to Hawaii. I don’t really know why Japanese people have such a fascination for Hawaii, especially when they’ve got their own tropical island to go to, i.e. Okinawa. However, I was reading recently that 40% of Japanese couples go [...]
Argentina the home of the puma’s
Friday, July 18th, 2008Argentina is the second largest country in South America, it runs from Bolivia in the north right down to Cape Horn. And from the Andes mountains right the way down to the Atlantic ocean, not to far away from the Falklands Islands. The high Andes range in the west contains Mount Cerro Aconcagua, the highest [...]
A Northen English Town Wigan
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008Wigan is a large town in Greater Manchester, It stands on the River Douglas near Preston, Manchester and Liverpool. Wigan is the largest settlement in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan and is its administrative centre.
This is an aerial view of Wigan’s town from the sky taken from Google Earth.
Historically Wigan was a part of [...]
The warm and sunny side of Chile
Monday, July 14th, 2008Chile is a narrow long country on the west side of South America, which runs from the pacific coast all the way to the high Andes it is between Peru in the north and Cape Horn in the south with Argentina and Bolivia, being her neighbours. The country stretches for about 4,300+km or 2650+ miles [...]
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Mark Ramsay, globetrotting from an armchair in England.
Nick Ramsay, exploring the world from a zabuton in Japan.