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...
WeeCheng Tan
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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...
WeeCheng Tan
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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...
WeeCheng Tan
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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...
WeeCheng Tan
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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...
WeeCheng Tan
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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...
WC Tan
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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...
WC Tan
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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...
WC Tan
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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...
WC Tan
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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...
WeeCheng Tan
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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...
WC Tan
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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...
WC Tan
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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...
WeeCheng Tan
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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...
WeeCheng Tan
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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...
WeeCheng Tan
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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,...
WeeCheng Tan
weecheng@...
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...
WeeCheng Tan
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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....
WC Tan
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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...
WeeCheng Tan
weecheng@...
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...
WC Tan
weecheng@...
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,...
WeeCheng Tan
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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...
WeeCheng Tan
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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...
Dear All, I will strive to keep future postings short and perhaps once a week or two. For those who want to read more, I have created a new newsgroup called...
Dear All, This is the first posting for the nomadnotes newsgroup. I have also cross posted it onto the twc-nomad group as some of you are still in the process...
After a nice, relaxed stay in sunny but humid Rio where I tried my best to forget the English weather and survived the legendary crime rates (see “Shootings...
Rotting Away in Asuncion, Paraguay Flat, almost empty savannah plains interrupted by herds of cattle, isolated estancias (farms) and villages, and occasionally...
Dear All, I am now back in Santiago, capital of Chile, after a few wonderful days on the mysterious Easter Island, 4000 km west of South America, in the South...
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