North Nicosia: Closing a 83,000,000 deal in a Rebel Capital We closed a 83,000,000 deal in a matter of minutes, with all sides satisfied. Couldn't squeeze in...
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May 9, 2001 11:16 pm
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Cyprus: A vulgar scuffle with a Cypriot Gangster "Chino, get back to work!" A bald stocky Cypriot patted my thigh as he waddled into the hotel lobby with a...
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May 10, 2001 9:19 pm
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Cyprus: Aphrodisiac in the Land of Aphrodite After the enlightening practical lesson into the world of four-letter words, I dragged my travel companions...
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May 10, 2001 10:56 pm
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Feasting on Moby Dick and feeling fishy all over Deep green valleys, gushing white waterfalls, steep vertical cliffs, picturesque fjords and desolate snowy...
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May 29, 2001 6:39 pm
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Dear All, I have just completed a website about my Feb/Mar 2001 trip to Cuba, Panama, Guatemala and Honduras: <http://weecheng.com/latin2/index.htm> Feel free...
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May 29, 2001 10:08 pm
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Dear All, I have created a new newsgroup - TWC World View, with digests of alternative news opinions of world events and developments, i.e., those different...
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Jun 2, 2001 8:54 am
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Bullfights and suckling pig in a wet Madrid Luis, the matador (bullfighter, as he is popularly known to the uninitiated), raises the sword, preparing to drive...
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Jun 13, 2001 12:10 am
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Island hopping in some interestingly boring places The Channel Islands. The great French writer, Victor Hugo, who was forced to live in exile in Guernsey for...
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Jun 28, 2001 10:42 pm
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Frankfurt & Rhineland: Dead Emperors and Good Wines I arrived in Frankfurt International Airport last Friday night. Have been to FRA several times, either for...
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Jul 15, 2001 8:48 am
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Bratislava: Pondering Over the Long & Short of A City It was a warm sunny Saturday when we arrived in Bratislava, capital of the Slovak Republic. When I said...
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Jul 31, 2001 6:59 am
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Dear All, This is just to let you know what I am up to. On the coming Friday night, I will be flying to Reykjavik, Iceland. Reach there after midnight, then...
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Jul 31, 2001 4:05 pm
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Kulusuk, East Greenland: WeeCheng becomes a Greenlandic seal hunter I became a Greenlandic seal hunter today, in what was one of my most extraordinary travel...
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Aug 5, 2001 2:03 pm
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East Greenland: Immaqa, Maybe, I will be out tomorrow It may take only an hour to fly to Greenland from Iceland but it is a world of difference here. The Gulf...
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Aug 6, 2001 9:58 pm
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Hunting for HUGE Penises and Having a Puffin Party Size matters. It's a magnificent thing, uncut, a little wrinkled from age and frequency of use, but still...
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Aug 9, 2001 8:15 am
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WeeCheng has a rotten shark for dinner after a whale watching fiasco Iceland is a geography teacher's dream but a natural disaster rescue team's nightmare. A...
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Aug 15, 2001 6:58 am
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It’s close to a week since I have returned from my North Atlantic trip. It is on the whole an enjoyable and remarkable one. The nature and landscapes are...
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Aug 17, 2001 3:33 pm
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Dear All, It has been quite some time since I have written about my travels. Since I last wrote about my Iceland/Greenland trip, I have spent about 9 days in...
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Sep 14, 2001 2:23 pm
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ANDORRA & CATALONIA PYRENEES: GREEN VALLEYS AND ROMANESQUE CHURCHES As we sped northwards, the fertile green farmlands of Catalonia gave way to deeply forested...
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Sep 17, 2001 10:09 am
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I have just completed two websites: 1) Cyprus - A Rush Across History & Fault-lines <http://weecheng.com/europe/cyprus/> 2) Madrid - Bullfight & Roast Suckling...
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Sep 26, 2001 7:37 pm
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Bologna & Predappio, Italy: Strange Encounter & Tea with Mussolini 5 October 2001 Tea with Mussolini ? Noop, that was a movie made a few years ago. You can't...
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Oct 14, 2001 6:18 pm
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San Marino: A small republic that said no to Napoleon 6 October 2001 San Marino - this is a tiny landlocked republic with size 60 sq km and 22,000 inhabitants,...
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Oct 15, 2001 9:35 pm
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Dear All, Here's the latest contribution to the cyberspace: Greenland is Ice and Iceland is Green <http://weecheng.com/europe/greenice> This site contains lots...
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Oct 20, 2001 9:45 pm
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Kraków, Auschwitz & Warsaw (Poland): Salt Mines, The Holocaust & Phoenix Rising From Ashes Kraków, Poland. The trumpeter’s melody was soft but distinct....
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Nov 1, 2001 4:44 pm
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Dear All, I have just completed my travelogue website on my recent trip to Poland (Kraków, Auschwitz and Warsaw): <http://weecheng.com/europe/poland/> and a...
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Nov 4, 2001 2:23 pm
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I visited Tajikistan briefly in 1998. Now that Tajikistan has become one of the frontlines of America's war against terrorism, I have dug out my old journal...
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Nov 5, 2001 6:27 pm
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The Chinese always believe that crisis represents risks as well as opportunities. Indeed the word "Wei-ji" or crisis is formed by joining together two terms,...
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Nov 21, 2001 8:28 pm
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Portugal: Lots of Port & codfish, an unfilial son & crowning a decomposed corpse Foggy skies blurred our vision of Porto as the plane landed. For me, it was a...
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Dec 1, 2001 11:20 am
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Malta: Feasting on bunnies and watching sunset over an aphrodisiac rock Marijja! Viva! Viva! Viva Marija! (Marija is Mary in the Malti language - Malti is...
Dear All, Merry Christmas & Happy New Year! What a month! Busy with admin work relating to leaving London, saying farewell to friends, and even managed a few...
HAPPY NEW YEAR! Prospero Ano Novo! It´s Wee Cheng writing from Rio de Janeiro, the marvellous metropolis in southern Brazil. I arrived here on Sunday morning...