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Troy Nahumko is an award-winning author based in Caceres, Spain. His recent work focuses on travels around the Mediterranean, from Tangier to Istanbul. As a writer and photographer he has contributed to newspapers and media such as Lonely Planet, The Globe and Mail, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Toronto Star, Couterpunch,The Irish World, The Straits Times, The Calgary Herald, Khaleej Times, DW-World, Rabble and El Pais. He also writes a bi-weekly op-ed column 'Camino a Ítaca' for the Spanish newspaper HOY. His book, Stories Left in Stone, Trails and Traces in Cáceres, Spain is published by the University of Alberta Press. As an ESL materials writer he has worked with publishers such as Macmillan and CUP.

Sunday, May 10, 2009

100 Things to do before you die

I recently came across something that takes travel writing's top ten tips to the extreme.

The Independent published '100 things to do before you die' last year in memorandum of Dave Freeman, creator of the travel guide of the same name.

I have to admit that I clicked through all 100 and found it funny that only one festival in Canada was mentioned...and it was a rodeo at that.

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