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Why Are People in the Wealthiest Countries so Miserable?

Why Are People in the Wealthiest Countries so Miserable?

I recently took a tram in Bern, Switzerland’s capital, at eight o’clock one Monday morning. It was full of truly miserable people. You would have been forgiven for thinking they all had lost their families, their homes, their friends, their jobs and all their possessions, and on top of it had just been diagnosed with [...]

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Missing India, Reverse Culture Shock and a Little Bit of Seasonal Blues

Missing India, Reverse Culture Shock and a Little Bit of Seasonal Blues

Lately I’ve found myself missing India increasingly often. When I returned to Europe in 2009 from a trip that lasted more than three years and included lots of travel around India, studying yoga in Mysore and long trips to nearby countries including Thailand, Singapore and Nepal, I was more than ready to leave Asia. Europe [...]

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Ridiculous Prices at Airports

Flying has become ridiculously expensive. Not because of the actual flying: that’s pretty cheap now. Too cheap if you think of the environmental disaster we’re all happily contributing to. No, flights are cheap, but one cup of coffee at a European airport costs more than an Indian bricklayer earns in a day. Two examples (although [...]

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Do You Have a Plan (and do you really need one anyway)?

Do You Have a Plan (and do you really need one anyway)?

Imagine this (or maybe you’ve been there): You’ve just spent months, or possibly years, travelling or living abroad. Maybe you were backpacking around Asia, travelling around the world for a year, doing some volunteer work in Africa or living as an expat in a tropical country. You’ve been living from day to day, going where [...]

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Back from India Part 2: Re-Entry Shock

Reverse culture shock, or re-entry shock, is something few people expect, but something that a large number of travellers or expats experience when returning home from a long stint abroad. Since I have just arrived from a short six-week trip to India, I did not experience much of a shock when returning to my boyfriend’s [...]

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