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The Painter on the Other Side of the Pond

3:00 PM / BY Envy
One day in early November my mom yelled at me to look out of the window. This confused me. Not that my mom's never yelled at me before, but usually it's because I've been a pain in the ass. That day I couldn't think of any way I'd been a pain in the ass (and believe me, I know quite a few ways to be one), and the fact that she told me to look...

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A Visit to The Killing Fields

3:00 PM / BY Envy
One day in 10th grade geography class a heap of human skulls stared at me from the pages of my textbook. 'Many Cambodians were killed on the Killing Fields by the Khmer Rouge' the caption said. We were studying Southeast Asia that semester and to better understand the current social-economical situation we had to understand the region's past first. Cambodia's past turned out to contain a genocide in more recent times than you'd think. I...

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Some Super Lao Thoughts

3:00 PM / BY Envy
Will I ever stop overthinking? Nah mate, it's what I do best. Even though I took a pretty long vacation this summer, my brain didn't. I guess it actually did the opposite. It was working overtime when I was in Laos, one of the most amazing countries I've ever been to. It's beautiful, it's awesome, it's... it's... God, I'm bad at describing a country properly. I'll just let my Lao thoughts show you how I...

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Rewriters 010: Crooswijk Route & Instameet

3:00 PM / BY Envy
Ever since I started obsessing over street art I've jumped at every chance to join a tour. I went to Utrecht, walked the Rewriters 010 route in the centre of Rotterdam and joined Frank's tour a couple of weeks ago. Then I got the most exciting news so far: Rewriters would open a new route, in Crooswijk this time, a part of the city where very few tourists ever go. It only got better when...

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