Category: health
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Conversations You Have Whilst Travelling
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Travelling and volunteering and just generally larking about across the world having fun is great! For all the obvious reasons. It is great because I get to meet amazing people. And that’s great because I get to have great conversations. I also get to have conversations whilst travelling that I…
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Alcohol
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I have a love-hate relationship with alcohol. Actually, that’s not true. I have a hate-hate relationship with alcohol, I just happen to quite enjoy some pubs. And I very much like a number of people who drink sometimes. And there’s a mushroom chestnut pie that really needs a bottle of…
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Six Week Slump
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The Six Week Slump is a concept I’m very familiar with. On volunteering projects it is common for volunteers working abroad to have a slump in about week 6. It may actually be week 5 or week 7 but in most cases it is pretty much week 6. At this…
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Breaks in Hetauda
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I’ve been to Hetauda for an overnight stay several times since I came to project. And there have been different reasons for the different trips. Firstly, it’s worth mentioning that I’m not that desperate to leave base, so I’m not running to Hetauda in order to run away from life…
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Finding Joy
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I suppose it isn’t that surprising, but joy is a truly wonderful thing. You can probably guess this simply by virtue of the definition of joy. 😊 Finding joy is something I’ve tried hard to do over the past several years. But not just finding it, also, noticing it. Sometimes…
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Traffic Accidents
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On New Year’s Day in Hetauda I went for a walk at around 7am ish to try to find a coffee shop to have breakfast in. While I was walking I saw two motorbikes collide. All three people involved walked away from it so it wasn’t as serious as it…
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Toilets
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Everyone loves it when I talk to them about toilets!! Ok, this might be a slight exaggeration, but it does actually surprise me that more people are interested than I would have thought. I guess it shouldn’t surprise me – toilets are a very necessary fact of life; they are…
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Vaccinations
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And one of the essential, but not glamorous aspects of travel is taking care of my health. I’m a big fan of vaccines – I mean, no one likes a Hep B injection, but I have a feeling that Hep B itself is significantly worse! Anyway, no Hep B injection…