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Re: linkling end of the earth edition

guinness416 — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 20:53:11 -0000

I know of an Irish guy who visited Pyongyang a couple of years ago, but he's admittedly a bit mad. According to him, Americans & South Koreans have visa issues, but anyone else can get in. You can't wander around by yourself though, you have to use the state-sanctioned tour groups. And I think you have to get the visa from the Beijing consulate, which is obviously a big expense unto itself.

Re: linkling end of the earth edition

plonkee — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 15:32:00 -0000

I also want to go to Ulan Baator, but I'm pretty sure I'll get there someday. I've got a semi-plan involving taking the Trans-Sib Express. The place I'd love to go to but don't think I will ever, is probably Pyongyang. I only want to go there whilst its a closed Communist dictatorship, and they don't let in tourists.

Re: linkling end of the earth edition

guinness416 — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 19:29:02 -0000

Whenever I see round-ups like this it always strikes me that there are a lot of really good and interesting writers blogging about money etc without much fanfare. I can't get into the big-traffic personal finance blogs as much any more; some of them seem very conscious of the media attention they're getting, and the writing suffers, becomes more corporate. All the "20 Ways to this ..." and "Come back for the end of this series!" is pretty inaccessible, loses a lot of personality.

There are many places I want to see before I'm done, the one I'm not sure I'll get to is Bhutan. It's not impossible, my husband's native country isn't a million miles away, but somehow I have the sense it's never really going to happen. If I can figure out a way to get a job that gives me more than 15 days holidays a year .... suppose I'll have to go back to Ireland for that.

Re: linkling end of the earth edition

Ruth — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 13:56:18 -0000

Thanks for the link to Making Ripples--good article. Twice in my life I've literally walked away from one life and started a new life, and both times it's been worth it. As the Rolling Stones told us so many years ago, "You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometime, you just might find, you get what you need." And that's the trick, distinguishing what you want from what you need.
--Oh, I want to go to Dunvegan on the Isle of Skye, but it will never happen. Still, dreams are fun.

Re: linkling end of the earth edition

Pinyo — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 11:08:17 -0000

Brip Blap, that's a great story about Russia ... reminds me of the Klingon empire and its culture :-)

I don't have some of these fine bloggers on my feed reader. Thanks for pointing them out.