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Category Archives: Middle East
Maps explain everything (almost)
Regular visitors to Travel Between The Pages are well aware that I am an insufferable map nerd. When I travel, I still insist on carrying multiple paper maps along with the usual digital map apps and downloaded maps to my travel destinations … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, History, Maps, Middle East, Public Transport, USA
Tagged Cartography, Rome, Vikings
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Waterman Butterfly, Hobo-Dyer, or Goode Homolosine
I nearly did a Master’s degree in Geography, but the constant battles over map projections put me off. This clever video by Randall Munroe helps to explain some of the most popular options. You don’t have to be a map … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Animation, Asia, Europe, Maps, Middle East, South America, Tech
Tagged Cartography, Dymaxion, Globes, Maps
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Ghost Words
What does palimpsest mean? 1 : writing material (such as a parchment or tablet) used one or more times after earlier writing has been erased. 2 : something having usually diverse layers or aspects apparent beneath the surface. One … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Asia, Books, Europe, History, Libraries, Middle East, Museums, Tech, Writing
Tagged Cambridge, medieval manuscripts, palimpsest
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Age is just a state of mind (or not)
Inspired by his own series of giant paste-up portraits, the French street artist known as JR started a scheme back in 2011 encouraging people around the world to participate in his Inside Out project by doing their own pastings. They … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Art, Asia, Books, Europe, Middle East, Photography, South America, USA, Writing
Tagged JR, Mural Art, Street Art
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Walk This Way
Most of us have not had the option to travel during the past year, so we have to make do with any virtual alternative that comes along. Until it’s safe again, you can almost satisfy those travel urges with City … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Asia, Canada, Europe, Film, Middle East, South America, Tourism, USA
Tagged Amsterdam, Athens, Madrid, Paris, Seville
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Guess Where
City Guesser is a geography based browser game that strives to provide an exceptional travel and guessing experience by allowing participants to guess where in the world they are from short video clips. I spent way to much time at … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Asia, Europe, Maps, Middle East, South America, Tech, Tourism, USA
Tagged Cities, games, Geography
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Welcome to Mars
On February 9th, the United Arab Emirates Mars Mission’s Hope Probe entered the Red Planet’s orbit. To commemorate the historic moment the UAE government has given visitors to the country a piece of space. Arrivals to Dubai airport on February … Continue reading
Posted in History, Middle East, Public Transport, Uncategorized
Tagged Dubai, Mars, UAE, United Arab Emirates
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The Walk
Good Chance is a humanitarian theatre company founded in 2015 in the unofficial refugee camp in Calais, France that’s often called “The Jungle”. It is behind an exciting public art project that will travel across two continents and many national … Continue reading
Vacation in a Box
Thanks to the Covid-19 pandemic, most of us have been forced to postpone our summer vacation plans, but IKEA in Dubai has come up with a clever idea to offer “vacations in a box” to help send customers to far-flung … Continue reading
Posted in Air Travel, Art, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Tourism
Tagged Cappadocia, Dubai, Ikea, Maldives, Tokyo, Turkey
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You Are An Acceptable Level of Threat
A new book called Banksy: You Are An Acceptable Level of Threat and if You Were Not You Would Know About has just been published. The book features a huge collection of photos highlighting some of the most iconic works by … Continue reading