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May 24, 2022
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This chapter will reveal why I include a geological supplement for each stop on this Olympic host cities tour. It’s not that I have a consuming interest in tectonics but I do have a compulsion for puns and now, as …
May 23, 2022
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Before the Games. It’s not unusual for non-athletic controversies to bubble up around any Olympic Games and the 2008 Games in Beijing were no different in this regard. I’ll touch on one of them – the torch relay. Twenty years …
May 21, 2022
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This post isn’t in any way related directly to my travels but is rather an opportunity for a brief catharsis. The last post recounting my train trip from Beijing to Saint Petersburg ended with this paragraph and photo: At the …