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Stone Botherings

In this post, we focus on Europe and more specifically, the UK. We write about these places a lot simply because the UK and Europe are top travel locations. (For reference here, England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom, UK.) It shares land borders with Wales to…

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More vroom from Boom!

As ever, we here at Matouring are, at heart, techno-geeks. We love the latest materials and manufacturing techniques, and the sheer cleverness of the builders and designers who are creating some of the most unfathomable products for all of us to behold and, soon, to enjoy. We may not see the fruits of…

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Beached Rails in Latvia

Yes, it probably seems like an odd title for a post, because we, too, wondered about how many beaches there are in Riga. From our fuzzy memories, we seem to recall Riga as being landlocked and in some ways, forlorn and forgotten. But, as you'll - and as we discovered, Latvia offers way…

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Panama Banal?

Hardly! And, so, here's another post for those with palpable wanderlust. Are you the type? Do you long to see everywhere on the planet before you shuffle off this mortal coil? Do you have no problems with wandering through the weeds or the woods to find yourself in nowhere, so to speak?…

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Game on!

For many decades, hunting wild animals was "the thing to do" if you considered yourself as a "sportsman." Never mind that dozens of species were dying out because of the "sport." Luckily, many more forward thinking people realised that hunting was not sustainable. The most significant criticism revolved around the impact on…

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Cruel Britannia?

Perusing YouTube today, we landed on a video about the UK hotel chain Britannia hotels. After a little digging, we discovered that there were quite a few reviews, and - at least as the YouTube reviews went, things were not looking good. In fact, some of what was discovered by the YouTube sleuths, the…

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Senegal – Solving tomorrow’s problems?

As of this writing, it's January 30, 2024, the planet is still on fire. We humans are not getting it. It's not like we don't know what's happening, or why, or how to fix it. According to NOAA's 2023 Annual Climate Report the combined land and ocean temperature has increased at an…

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How high can you fly?

The ever humorous Douglas Adams always knew how to turn a phrase. He wrote The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy that sold more than 15 million copies in his lifetime. Given the nature of that book, we're sure he would laugh with us at the irony of it all. As he quoted, “I…

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