The Flying Tortoise

It's time. I've decided. I've given it serious consideration. It's been wonderful and now it's time to say goodbye. It's time to go. And time too, to take another step back away from society. Wit...

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Bertie may just have broken a thirty seven year record becoming the fastest tortoise on the planet and racing his way into the Guinness Book of Records by sprinting 5.48 meters in an amazing 19.5...

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Canadian photographer and traveler Christopher Herwig returned to what was the Soviet Union a decade ago to photograph the architectural oddities that are Russia's bus stops. There's more here&nb...

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Can you imagine it. What a wonderful housebus this beautiful old girl could be transformed into. Imagine the rich all wooden interior, the bed there, a bath perhaps, certainly a little wood stove...

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After three million years of evolution. We've lost only the hair...

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Standing alone is ok. If you have to...

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It had to happen. People want small and big at the same time. And supposing the electrics function properly and reliably, by pushing a button, Beauer's tiny teardrop styled camper goes from 43sq ...

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The open road is Long Island artist Grant Haffner's favourite place to be. "When I drive I feel completely alive he says. For a small moment in between this place and that I'm free from reality. ...

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The beautiful little one room Morioka Shoten is a bookstore in Tokio that displays one very carefully selected book at a time, It's a long long way from the not so gentle giant Amazon who's exist...

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Wow! Twelve life sentences. A total of three thousand three hundred and eighteen years in jail with no chance of parole. If I'd known I was going to get that length of sentence I may not have don...

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Some people are suggesting Berlin's Gunther Krabbenhoft is one hundred and four but he says he's a lot younger. Some people are suggesting that he should know but let's not let silly unimportant ...

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I received this comment from Hanne Maja Christiansen and am compelled to share it. It touches my heart and restores some faith in humanity. Thankyou, sons and daughters of the Vikings. "Well I wr...

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Sometimes the funniest things happen on the road to success...

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Thousands and thousands of immigrants and refugees are, as you're reading this, arriving in Germany where they're being welcomed with open arms. The Pope has ordered each of his churches in Europ...

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A few days ago, six vehicles towing teeny tiny trailer homes made their way down Broadway to the Reverend Jeff  Carr's Green Street Church grounds where they are now housing some of Nashvill...

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I post these images with a very heavy heart. But with no apology. I am upset. I am sad. I am angry. I am crying. And like you. I am not powerless. Please join me and millions of others in demandi...

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The little Kenyan village of Umoja is a sanctuary for women and their children. Men are not allowed to live there. Originally it became a place of refuge for the fifteen survivors of a brutal rap...

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A Selection Of Musings. Philosophy. On A Gypsy lifestyle. The Journey. The Joy Of Living Simply In Small spaces. Solar Power. Living Off-Grid. Self Sufficiency. New Zealand. The World. Opinions. Snippets. Ideas. Things Intriguing Entertaining Amusing Informative And Inspirational. People. Art. Architecture. Design And Photo Images. Social Commentary...

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Urban Campsite Amsterdam is located in the Centrumeiland or Centre Island, which is an artificial peninsular created with layers of sand. It's a temporary home to these wonderfully quirky sleepin...

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Presented suddenly with options she hadn't and wouldn't have considered without a dispute with her landlord causing her to move from her apartment, twenty three year old student Leone Muller real...

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These two avid baseball fans may cheer for different teams, she for the Giants and he for the Cardinals but Carol and Warren Reckmeyer have been on the same team since June 1952. And proud of it....

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Usain Bolt is the world's fastest runner. On August 23 at the Birds Nest Stadium in Beijing the twenty nine year old Jamaican won the men's 100m final of the World Athletics Championship in a tim...

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These extravagant interiors with their fully carved wood corridors, gold foil inlays, crystal chandelier and massive marble columns are part of the offices of the state owned Harbin Pharmaceutica...

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NASA has denied viral internet claims that an asteroid will crash into Earth next week. The predictions were first made by biblical theorists who claimed a space rock will wipe out parts of North...

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It used to be that the little neighbourhood of Las Palmitas in Pachuca, a hundred or so miles from Mexico City was known only as a poor and violent community. But now, thanks to the efforts of th...

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