recommendations & rants (tips, links and reviews)

Green Brent - Happy St Patrick's Day - Là Féile Pàdraig!

March 17 2010 , Written by thediversetraveller Published on #bag pipes, #Brent, #Ireland, #Irish, #Irish folk music, #Kilburn, #Mayor of Brent, #Politicians, #Recommendations & Rants (tips, links and reviews), #St Patrick's day, #Willesden

Despite living in Brent on and off for four years I had never seen a St Patrick's Day parade here. St Patrick's Day, a celebration of the patron saint of Ireland, St Patrick, who it is said introduced Christianity to Ireland in the 5th century A.D. Why...

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Tears of the Desert: One woman's true story of surviving the horrors of Darfur

March 10 2010 , Written by thediversetraveller Published on #Africa, #Book, #Darfur, #escape, #Islam, #Memoir, #Politics, #Rape, #Recommendations & Rants (tips, links and reviews), #Religion, #Sudan, #Torture, #woman, #women of colour

Since I won't be travelling abroad anytime soon, I have turned to my travel library to 'Travel Buy the Book'. Over two days, I left the cold of my NW London home and travelled to hot and troubled Sudan - Darfur to be exact; courtesy of Halima Bashir's...

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Unleashing my creativity - two

March 4 2010 , Written by thediversetraveller Published on #City Lit, #creativity, #Diverse Traveller, #DiverseTraveller.com - Women Who Travel, Write, Snap & Share, #Ola Fagbohun, #Petina Hapgood, #Recommendations & Rants (tips, links and reviews), #Workshop

As promised in my last post Unleashing my creativity - one, here is a brief overview, plus a few videos showing you more of the games and activities that made up the How to run a workshop class. Warm Ups – warm the body up and relax students Body stretch...

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Unleashing my creativity - one

March 3 2010 , Written by thediversetraveller Published on #activities, #City Lit, #creativity, #DiverseTraveller, #DiverseTraveller.com - Women Who Travel, Write, Snap & Share, #improvisation, #Ola Fagbohun, #Petina Hapgood, #Recommendations & Rants (tips, links and reviews), #Workshop

The text message I sent back to a friend, who had asked what I was up to today, Sunday, read … “Hiya, Hve just been a melted wax work now singing twinkle twinkle little start as a scene from Eastenders…” Rainy days and Sundays Once again I wondered why...

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One to watch: Zimbabwe's Forgotten Children

March 2 2010 , Written by thediversetraveller Published on #BBC four, #Documentary, #Recommendations & Rants (tips, links and reviews), #TV, #Xoliswa Sithole, #Zimbabwe's Forgotten Children

Channel hopping on Monday night, I came across Zimbabwe's Forgotten Children on BBC Four. All I will say is watch it on iplayer and be prepared to well, watch it and see. About the programme: Shot entirely undercover over the course of nine months, a...

Currently reading: Give me shelter edited by Tony Bradman

February 23 2010 , Written by thediversetraveller Published on #books, #children, #reading, #Recommendations & Rants (tips, links and reviews), #refugees, #stories, #UK

I read a wide, Diverse, range of travel-related books including many about life for people new to Britain, either as travellers, expats, immigrants or refugees. At the moment I am reading a little book, 220 pages, ... "a collection of stories about children...

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Are you breeching "Jetiquette"?

February 18 2010 , Written by thediversetraveller Published on #air travel, #Gailen David, #Jetiquette, #Recommendations & Rants (tips, links and reviews), #sky steward, #travel manners

As the size of our check-in luggage decreases, so it seems do our travel manners. I am not alone in observing that some travellers check-in their manners whilst checking-in their luggage. I have sat behind a child who used the back of my seat as a football...

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Keeping an open mind regarding adventure travel

February 12 2010 , Written by thediversetraveller Published on #adventure travel, #Afghanistan, #Exhibition, #glamping, #Iran, #Ola Fagbohun, #Oz Bus, #Recommendations & Rants (tips, links and reviews), #Spaceship Rentals, #Ticks, #uloop

On the last Saturday of January, I visited the Adventure Travel Live 2010 exhibition in London. Adventure travel is not my type of travel, in fact the thought of soaking myself while white water rafting, exhausting myself while hiking or lying down with...

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Free travel to Istanbul

February 11 2010 , Written by thediversetraveller Published on #DiverseTraveller, #Istanbul, #Recommendations & Rants (tips, links and reviews), #travel, #Turkey, #YouTube

Who says you have to have money to travel? Take me for instance, a group of ladies I know are travelling to Instanbul for a long weekend next month; unfortunately, despite my peny-pinching ways I am too broke to join them. Do I moan, cry or steal. No!...

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Insider guide to Brent: artful jogging in Gladstone Park

February 9 2010 , Written by thediversetraveller Published on #Bupa 10K, #Fitness, #Gladstone Park, #London, #NW London, #Ola Fagbohun, #public art, #Recommendations & Rants (tips, links and reviews)

Despite its reputation as built up area, Brent has 1000 acres of parkland that's one fifth of all the land in Brent. And over half of Brent's residents say they use one of Brent's park at least once a week. Last Sunday was my first visit to one of Brent's...