Written by I saw a competition for travel writing openers recently and I shook my head. I wish I could wave a wand and remove Opening Sentence Stress from budding travelogue writers. You see, I don’t think the opening sentence important. The opening paragraph is. Let me emphasise that this doesn’t apply to articles or short stories. [...]
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My Fascination with Hungarian
I’ve been fascinated with Hungarian for the best part of a decade. I started with some night classes in Vienna during 2002 and continued with the purchase of the US Department of State self-teaching method that runs into fifty-two 90-minute cassettes (we are talking 2004) and is recommended for US embassy staff and spies, I [...]
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The first point of call for those who want a Singaporean experience in London is a pilgrimage to Westminster Abbey. There, in the north choir aisle, you can find a seated marble statue of Sir Stamford Raffles who founded the colony in 1819. Although a legendary figure in Singapore itself , Raffles incurred the displeasure [...]
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