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Travelogue
A travelogue is a written record of a journey. Travelogues have a long history, from Pausanias' account of 2nd-century Greece, to Marco Polo's travels in 13th-century Asia, to the 19th-century ramblings of Mark Twain, through to modern travel literature.
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I kissed him, throwing my arms around his neck. I didn’t think twice about it. I didn’t hold back my love. I wanted him with every part of my being. His energy pulled me down to earth and sent my legs growing into the ground like the roots of a tree. He spoke about us having 'vibes' and tried to explain it to me as though I wouldn’t know what he was talking about, like I didn’t know the language of souls, like I hadn’t noticed that when we sat next to each other the air buzzed between us.
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― The Shift: A Memoir
― The Shift: A Memoir
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I love wide stretches of open land, but to the average Spaniard, who typically thrives in company and is most at home in a crowd, these fields of Extremadura (which literally means “extremely tough”) could even be intimidating, only partly because not far back in time there were bandits in the region.
They were named as the ‘extreme’ end of the country.
If it is at least not totally empty, there is certainly a sense of that great lonesome feeling created by the far-off, long, long line at wh
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― Slow Travels in Unsung Spain
― Slow Travels in Unsung Spain
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