Tag: travel

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  ELISABETH ‘LIZ’ MURDOCH: A comprehensive profile of ‘the exiled queen’

  Widely considered the sharpest Murdoch child, Elizabeth ‘Liz’ Murdoch’s ambitions were constantly thwarted by her father Rupert Murdoch’s old-fashioned primogeniture. She walked away to build her own successful production company, Shine, which Rupert later bought. Though she often played the family peacemaker, Liz ultimately joined the Nevada lawsuit to stop brother Lachlan’s uncontested takeover of…

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  Blissful without texts, emails, facebook, twitter

  The call of “now” from all the devices and the endless alerts had me thinking during a walk along the banks of the Nam Khan river in Luang Prabang if these had made me a better person or just a manic one.

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  Stranger in my Kiev room

  Someone knocked on my door. I’ve heard enough horror stories about hotel crimes, so I decided I not to open the door. Lo and behold, the Russian-speaking guy in the elevator opened the door himself!

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  Changing lane

  I had to drive on the other side of the road. Drivers in Australia stay on the left lane and drive from the right side of the car. For me, that’s the wrong side of the road and the wrong side of the car.