Common Sense and Whiskey
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Located Young Harris, Georgia USA
Tags travel, international travel, photography, current events, world travel, world events
World Travel + World Photography. Join us for intelligent discussion about the world out there.
Latest Blog Posts
- Twenty Years Ago, Communist Collapse Continued on Nov 24, 2009 in Armenia Azerbaijan Books Current Affairs Germany Russia
As a single event, the initial breach of the Berlin Wall succinctly symbolized the entire tumult of twenty years ago, so on the twentieth anniversary of the event earlier this month everyone reflected on what it meant to them, personally,...
- Men's Beige Trousers just £8... Oh, and um, Plus Sea Mail... on Nov 24, 2009 in St. Helena and Ascension Islands
We have it on good authority that these items are for sale: • Ladies kick flare jeans sizes 10 priced at £15.00 each • Variety of lipsticks and eye shadow at £1.00 each • Manicure sets at £2.50 each •...
- Friday Photo Quiz #48 on Nov 20, 2009 in Photo Quiz photography quiz
Like in last week's photo quiz, this place is its country's capital and seat of government, but unlike last week, it's not the country's biggest city. It's home to about a million and a half people. This city and Krakow,...
- CS&W Interview: Sean Gallagher on North Korea on Nov 20, 2009 in China Korea Photographers We Admire
Sean Gallagher is unlike most people. He has been to Pyongyang. In September the award-winning, Beijing-based photographer and the Canadian Globe and Mail's Asia correspondent, Mark MacKinnon, entered North Korea as tourists. Gallagher wrote about hi...
- Fifty Photos #39 on Nov 19, 2009 in Fifty Photos photography australia
The shipyard at Freemantle, Australia. Find 400 more photos from around Australia in the Australia Gallery at EarthPhotos.com. Get top-notch professional 8x12 Glossy & Matte prints of this and any of these Top Fifty Prints for just $11.50, 16x24...
- Interview Tomorrow: Photographer Sean Gallagher on North Korea on Nov 19, 2009 in Korea
We write about tourism to North Korea whenever we run across the rare story about it (here, here, here and here, among a few others). Here's an article written by Sean Gallagher, a photographer based in Beijing, about his visit...
- Refusal to Enter Japan on Nov 18, 2009 in China Current Affairs Japan japan china travel
"Feng Zhenghu has been living in the grey zone between arrival gate and immigration for nearly two weeks" at Tokyo's Narita airport, according to the Financial Times. Mr. Feng says he was physically forced back onto an ANA flight to...
