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Welcome to the combined blog of Persis and Tegan. Through our non-sequitors of all manner of sticky situations and passion for the unusual, we demonstrate that travel can be just as much through being a tourist in your own city as it is being on the road.
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“Oh is she the girl who...?”

So something happened the other day that got me thinking about whether or not I’ve become typecast as the ‘traveller.’ I was asked to contribute an article for a university newspaper and after thinki...

20 mar 12

Serendipity

ser.en.dip.i.ty A happy accident.  The fortunate discovery of things in the search of other things.  This could perhaps sum up my last month in China. Whilst there were some trials and trib...

13 feb 12

Coming Home

"Im so sad youre leaving!""Im going to miss you so much!""Ill come and visit you soon!""You have to come back and see us soon!""Ill probably never see you again......

06 feb 12

Hangzhou

I could start this post quoting Blanche DuBois, tragic heroine of Tennessee Williams play A Streetcar Named Desire: "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers". That would probabl...

18 jan 12

Ramblings in Shanghai: Its lonely on the culture divide

My last post was rather brief - I am going to make up for it now. January makes her presence known - and felt - quite acutely in my apartment without functioning heaters. This is the second time in t...

09 jan 12

Hogmanay...

...or why I started 2012 with an epic hangover and a cold that wont quit.My battle with the evil IO (Immigration Office) may or may not have been as well publicised as I would like to believe. Regard...

05 jan 12

Christmas in China

This year I spent Christmas in Xian, the ancient city that is home to the terracotta warriors. I left work and hopped on a flight, two hours later I was in the west of China and feeling the onslaught...

04 jan 12 1 person likes this

There is no public transport on Christmas day, and other such noteworthy facts

...such as Karens 22nd Birthday!Which in my forgetful and sleep deprived state I missed entirely. To be fair though, there was no facebook reminder, which I have no shame is confessing is the only wa...

26 dec 11 1 person likes this

Merry Theft-mas or I wish this was a hypothetical post

...instead it is all very real.I cant say Ive had the most glorious run of luck.I was robbed the other day. The first time its happened in my life. I have traveled to places where pick-pocketing is r...

19 dec 11 1 person likes this

Three men and I

Ive been here for about 2 and a half weeks now and considering my living conditions thats bound to provide for plenty of stories. Im staying in a 4 bed mixed dorm, which I chose pretty much because i...

14 dec 11 1 person likes this

Sergent Shanghais Lonely Hearts Club Band

The weather is chilling - this weekend, the barometer has dropped to zero degrees. Im going to be so 2005 when I say this but in the eternal words on Sean Paul: "the way the time cold I wanna be ...

11 dec 11 1 person likes this

traveling-to-live s photostream

traveling-to-lives photostream on Flickr.Shanghai - week 1

08 dec 11 1 person likes this

The jaded commuter

So I have been in Shanghai for a couple of days now. As much as I have enjoyed the city on numerous prior trips, I cant say everything has run particularly smoothly this time around. Two things abou...

06 dec 11 1 person likes this

The cold seeps into your soul.

Where have all the pigeons gone?So while we have to deal with the scavenging, thieving, disgusting winged vermin all year long, these Brits get a lovely 5 month break from the rats of the sky - appar...

04 dec 11 1 person likes this

Concentration

Concentration, a photo by traveling-to-live on Flickr.Test

30 nov 11 1 person likes this

The strange case of the silent travelers

Picture this: Youve just arrived in a new, beautiful, exciting, cultured city. You might be passing through, exploring, working, studying or volunteering. You want to do, see and experience everythin...

30 nov 11 1 person likes this

traveling-to-live s photostream

traveling-to-lives photostream on Flickr.Shanghai - first photos

27 nov 11 1 person likes this

Accommodation in Shanghai - Mission Possible

Its been an interesting weekend running around the streets of Shanghai, tying loose ends together before I jet off "for real" to start my internship on the 5th of December. The inbox messages...

27 nov 11 1 person likes this

Censorship

This post is to test whether posts may be written from China. From what I can see, blogger and blogspot are not working. I must say it feels a bit disorienting to be cut off from the modes of social ...

25 nov 11 1 person likes this

India from my journal: Part 1

So Ive decided I must be more active on this blog - this will hopefully translate itself into two posts per week while Im gone but I make no promises, and operate under no obligations.In more interes...

22 nov 11 1 person likes this

The Great Firewall of China

So this is just a quick post, a little gratuitous. Im trying to link this blog and make it accessible from China, where Ill be over summer. As you may know, facebook and social networking sites are b...

13 nov 11 1 person likes this

Traveling to places that dont exist

We all know the ease and convenience of your conventional Contiki package tours and generally traveling in style. Alternatively, there are some among us more taken by the idea of backpacking off the ...

09 nov 11 1 person likes this

London is always calling me

Hello! Hello!Long time no blog! There are many reasons but the two that supercede all others are: Im an incredibly lazy person, and the satisfactory(?) completion of all my classes means I am no long...

02 nov 11 1 person likes this

The Sketchbook Project

This morning gave me the inkling that today would be a lousy day, perhaps bordering on mediocre at best. Stuck indoors with a pulled muscle, a 4000 word essay that is half complete and studying for e...

31 oct 11 1 person likes this

Train-travel: nostalgic or suited for the modern traveler?

I really love trains. This is quite an embarrassing confession but in my tender years, I aspired to be a train driver - much of this is to do with my exposure to Thomas the Tank Engine. It seemed lik...

14 oct 11 1 person likes this

I used to think I was mentally stable...

Nervous anticipation. Fear. Panic. The overwhelming temptation to cancel all your plans and just sleep the holidays away. It’s the same routine every single time I take a trip, and it never ceases to...

12 oct 11 1 person likes this

"Dont waste your youth like I did..."

My most recent job has me calling up UNSW Alumni and asking them to donate money to the University to help create scholarships for disadvantaged students. But this isn’t a post about the worst, least...

07 oct 11 1 person likes this

When it goes wrong: Looking for the bright side

I found myself in a bookshop today and felt a magnet drawing me to the travel writing section. In among the chick-lit and Peter Mayle-esque travel writing about France, I stumbled across a novel call...

04 oct 11 1 person likes this

How boredom can lead you to great things: Couchsurfing (Part 2)

Tegan first introduced me to couchsurfing. I think it was early 2010, I’d just come back from my summer in Cape Town, and she’d just had her first experiences in HK and Shanghai. We were talking thro...

03 oct 11 1 person likes this

How boredom can lead you to great things: Couchsurfing

Its no secret that boredom has led me to do reckless things in the past. I will recount one experience for you however that turned in my favour and surprisingly didnt include my vice; alcohol. It was...

28 sep 11 1 person likes this

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