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If there’s one thing about doing a lot of travel on hand luggage it’s the fine selection of ‘security checked’ stickers that collected along the …
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My desert guide whips out blanket and starts to brew water for coffee, and no surprises that it’s of the instant, granule variety. There’s something …
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A beautifully minimal phone kiosk design – doesn’t include a coin-return slot. The explicit design choice of a one-way direction of coins assumes a 100% …
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For certain types of research – the highest compliment that a client can pay is that your findings are ‘common sense’. They usually point this …
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Walk around the Ashgabat suburbs and you soon come across of clusters of satellite dishes clinging to buildings like mushrooms to a tree. How do consumers …
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Brands we know and love, Barf soap powder can be found across the old Soviet republics.
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Turkmenistan only has one style of long license plate, which I presume is issued by a central authority – which means that the many 4WD’s …
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There’s something about checking into a hotel where you know the rooms are bugged, or at the very least used to be. Read the opening …
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Don’t ask me how, but I somehow ended up at the annual Turkmenistan sports day gala and prize giving. I suspect every culture has its …
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