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5 essential steps to find a job teaching English overseas

Wondering how to travel the world and make money while you’re doing it? Have you just finished a university degree, but can’t find a good job. Are you looking for ways to pay…

Zurich Street Parade 11 hours of insanity at the biggest technoparade in Europe

Zurich is the most civilized city I’ve ever been to. Café’s and quiet streets - the promenade stretching along Lake Zurich filled with sailboats and lined by the Swiss Alps…

Escaping Ukranian jail with my first police bribe

Before arriving in Odessa, Ukraine I thought the whole Eastern European police bribe rumor a farce. Little did I know that if you’re in the wrong place at the right time you’d…

Exploring Chernobyl the real future of a nuclear disaster

With names like zone of alienation and exclusion zone marking the areas surrounding the most famous nuclear power plant in the world, its surprising that 27 years after the biggest…

Unlocking the secrets of Japanese martial art Shorinji Kempo

After my first few weeks in Tokyo I discovered Shorinji Kempo and decided to dedicate my three months in the city training in this Japanese martial art. I had never heard about…