When people travel to any destination a bit "off the beaten track", they often face a lot of opposition from their friends or family. Usually it's uninformed, perhaps even paranoid, and I have to say, that really bugs me. Wendy Knight wrote a great story called Dangerous Minds for one of my …
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Same sky: What kind of food is your pie chart?
We had another one of those Russian mountain moments in my ESL class this week when I asked my students what to call this kind of graph. Nobody thought it was a pie chart, and instead they all translated the name from their own language - and it was hilarious.The Koreans had a very pragmatic …
Same sky: Are tourists ignorant … or offensive?
The issue of being a traveller or a tourist is an interesting distinction; wait a couple of weeks and you can read my take on it on Vagabondish. Until then, an article caught my eye today about the Dangers of Blissful Ignorance: it talked about being cultural sensitive and aware, and learning about …