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The Cost of Living: Cheap European Countries to Retire to

30 September 2011

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Ensuring a comfortable retirement means more than shoring up as much money to see you by as possible. To truly enjoy the best quality of life available, you need to make sure you’re living in the most appropriate place. By choosing to spend your retirement years in some of Europe’s cheapest and more beautiful countries, [...]

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How to Keep Holiday Expenses Down

13 September 2011

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A holiday is something many of us dream of doing and there is no doubt that many of us deserve a break after grueling hours of work. But contrary to what many people think, a vacation may just be within reach and within the budget if you try hard enough to find the best deals. [...]

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My new Nokia E63

23 May 2009

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My laptop has been giving me trouble these days and while the hardware is fine, Windows is giving the bluescreen of death every second day. It get’s pretty annoying. I think I will buy a new Netbook soon, so instead of a new laptop I thought I would just get a new phone with Wfi. [...]

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Finding a place to settle

12 May 2009

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I started traveling at the start of 2007, partly I just wanted to travel and partly looking for a place to settle down more permanently. I finally decided that I was going to try and settle in Indonesia and have begun learning the language. I spent a couple of months in the Indonesia’s third largest [...]

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Renting is cheap in Indonesia

20 February 2009

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I am planning to stop traveling for a little while. I have been going since September this year, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines. I am planning to stay in Medan in Sumatra for a while and spend some time working on my sites. There aren’t really any apartments here, so you have the option [...]

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My new home, maybe

16 February 2009

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I just came back from spending about a month in the Philippines. I had some good friends from the Philippines while I was living in China last year, until the government kicked most of them out right before the Beijing Olympics. I had a lot of expectations of the country and was even thinking of [...]

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So-long Beijing

17 September 2008

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It has been nearly a month since I posted my last entry to this blog, which is probably the longest break I have had from writing here. I suppose I felt like I needed to take a break from blogging after the Olympics. I am actually writing this from Australia, where I arrived back in [...]

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Success in small steps

2 July 2008

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I have been battling away now on my Beijing blog for nearly a year now and it is just over a month until the the games start in August. The Wall Street Journal linked to the blog today and Problogger published an article I wrote on Facebook. Traffic from Google still isn’t great, but I [...]

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My China visa woes

15 June 2008

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I have been in China for a few months now and since I last posted about getting a visa to stay here for the Olympics, I still haven’t gotten it yet. Worst still the agent has my passport and my previous visa has long expired. The Chinese government is getting very strict now as to [...]

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Fun and games in China

27 April 2008

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I was surprised last year when I came to China how easy it had become to rent an apartment and live in the country (aside from the crowds and the pollution). With the run up to the Olympics, China has become more like it was ten years ago – controlling the movement of people in [...]

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