"Hi, my name is Todd, I'm from The Killing fields..." I could have flown, it would have been by far the simplest option however I have a thing for seeing the places between the places and five hours on a bus is not so bad when weighed against potential vistas, or the chance of an enlightening conversation with a knowledgeable local. However... I have no doubt that he, Todd is from Cambodia. I do however doubt that Todd is his given name. I also do not doubt that Todd loves cl

Do you like travelling around Europe? Here are some of my tops tips. After spending the past few weeks #voyaging from #Germany to #Italy and back again, there is something wholly unique about crossing country borders without having to fly across seas and beyond. Over the course of the trip I caught #German, #Swiss and #Italian trains and yes, there was a difference between all of them. The German efficiency meant the chaos of Italian transportation and stations left a lot t

The #Canadian Mark Carney picked to run the Bank of England for the next 5 years has already made a big move to keep interest rates low until unemployment falls to 7%. That is a good start but we should also be thinking of wider options and being a lot more experimental, rather than just playing in the same economic sandpit all the time. Just in the way that #Japan is considering now and what China did to #Shenzhen in the late 70's we need to be #experimental when it comes to

The Argentine #publishing company Pequeño Editor is launching children books designed to be planted when one finishes reading them! The green message of the books, overlap the written stories, and their unusual ending will definitely surprise the reader, regardless of age. According to the company, it is a way to give back to #nature what was taken from it. There are already small Jacaranda trees in #Argentina that were born from one of the latest books "Mi Papa Estuvo en la

¿Qué tiene una #serie #televisiva que no tiene un #diccionario? Pues, simplemente, tiene la cotidianeidad que no trae el diccionario. Lo #audiovisual es una herramienta poderosísima para aprender una nueva #lengua. Es uno de los canales más eficaces para incorporar nuevos términos, como también es un método eficaz para adquirir el ritmo, la velocidad y la #pronunciación correcta de las distintas #palabras. Además en la #televisión y el #cine están los distintos #acentos y la

Today I finally had some time to #relax from what was a crazy week. No, I didn’t launch my super #hero career, but instead I was #driving to and from the #hospital as my wife’s currently there “relaxing” before the #birth of our second child. As I sat down on a rather windy afternoon I was watching the cows in the field opposite. Firstly I wondered how they knew to stick together and who the “leader” was. As I was watching ‘Danger Cow’ came forth. This small cow (not a calf