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- December 30th, 2009
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Culchies?
One of the most-read Irish blogs in my feedreader is culch.ie. A gathering of some of Irelands mot prolific bloggers and writers, among them Darren Byrne and Rick O’Shea, this funny bunch supplies a…
- December 28th, 2009
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Traditional Maori Craft in New Zealand
Carving by Shanti, shanti The Maori were the first people in New Zealand and Rotorua is a town steeped in Maori history and culture. It is located in the middle of the North Island of New Zealand. A…
- December 25th, 2009
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Cooking chapati in Nairobi, Kenya
This photo comes to us from Isabelle aka Prondis in Kenya. She says, “Cooking chapati on a jiko. Laborious work! The charcoal fired jiko drops its ashes below; the little door at the bottom regulat…
- December 24th, 2009
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Streets of Yemen
This week we’re featuring two Yemeni bloggers who write about life in their country. Most of their posts are in Arabic, but with Google Translate and a bit of patience, we can see a bit of Yemen thr…
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Christkind or Weihnachtsmann? Christmas in Germany
Christmas traditions in Germany vary a lot, depending on the area you live in, and also if this area is predominantly a Catholic or Protestant one. We even have two entities bringing presents: the C…
- December 23rd, 2009
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Sunny Christmas: Christmas in New Zealand
First events on the Christmas calendar in New Zealand? Santa parades! In the first or second week of December many towns and cities have a parade which kicks off the excitement of Christmas for the…
- December 22nd, 2009
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Magic Christmas: Christmas in Catalunya
Catalunya is in the north-east part of Spain and has a distinct language, culture and traditions of its own. Whereas in Spain Christmas is celebrated with a big family meal on the evening of 24th Dece…
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Meet Anna and Bose
Where are you from? Bose was Indian until recently and is now a US citizen; Anna is English and hopes to be a joint UK/US citizen soon. Where did you meet? We met in New York City (where we both l…
- December 21st, 2009
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Regained Christmas - Christmas in Romania
20 years ago, after the fall of communism, Romanians earned their right to celebrate Christmas again. Before 1989, Christmas was a forbidden word; but, in spite of these restrictions, most of us prese…
- December 19th, 2009
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Christmas in Costa Rica: A Delightful Time of Traditions
In Costa Rica, Christmas is not white but windy. There’s no snow, but it’s the best time of the year, not only for the blue skies and cold nights, but also for the happiness that’s in the air. O…
- December 18th, 2009
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White Christmas?
Aside from the religious aspect, British people love to celebrate Christmas. Part of the reason is that it takes our minds off the terrible weather – when it doesn’t snow, the weather at this time…
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Christmas around the world
Over the next week we’ll be publishing a series of posts from our contributors around the world. Each day one of them will tell us about Christmas in their country. Hope you enjoy reading about the…
- December 16th, 2009
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Scenes from Christchurch
Thanks to daily photo blogs, internet travellers can get a peek at cities all over the world with just one click. One of these cities is Christchurch, the biggest city in New Zealand’s South Island.…
- December 15th, 2009
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Meet Matthew and Shinichi
Where are you from? (Matthew): I’m from the United States and Shinichi is Japanese. Where did you meet? We met in Tokyo twelve years ago when a mutual friend brought him to my birthday party. What l…
- December 14th, 2009
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What future for Arabic dialects?
We often refer to ‘The Middle East’ as one region, but it is actually made up of more than 20 countries and territories. Most of these are Arabic speaking. Middle Eastern countries share some cul…
- December 13th, 2009
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Now available with Creative Commons
We’re very pleased to announce that from now on we’re making PocketCultures content available under a Creative Commons attribution only license. That means that all original content created by Poc…
- December 11th, 2009
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Chinese pancakes
“This is the kind of Chinese food you can’t really find in restaurants” says Xiaozhuli, sharing another great photo! Inside the pancakes are jiucai (leeks) and meat. Are you hungry? Do you wan…
- December 10th, 2009
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What do you think about Ethiopia?
What do you think about Ethiopia? Deep from Ethiopia can guess: Ask any non-Ethiopian what they think about Ethiopia and the answer will be a really grim one. The images of the 80’s are still burnt…
- December 7th, 2009
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Ireland’s top five tourist destinations without tourists…
..or at least a limited number. As Ireland is a major holiday destination (especially during the summer months), it’s quite difficult to escape the guided-tour buses and camera-wielding crowds most…
- December 4th, 2009
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The perfect Belgian lunch
‘A perfect lunch’ from seikinsou, from the Cercle des Voyageurs cafe in Brussels. Thanks for sharing it! Seikinsou writes: “I enjoyed my tagliatelle with a creamy and delicious Madras curry sau…
- December 2nd, 2009
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Is there a German way?
The German Way Expat Blog is a really usefull source of information for English-speaking expats (and those planning to become such) on the going-ons in all German-language countries (Germany, Austria…
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Love without borders
We’d like to interrupt the interviews this week to recommend a post on cross-cultural couples over on Expat Harem. It talks about some of the difficulties faced by cross-cultural marriages, but als…
- December 1st, 2009
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The best of Thailand at Pattaya Floating Market
Ask any tourists what image they have of Pattaya and you’ll be met with something along the line of cheap beers and girls. And the city knows it. That’s why over the recent years Chonburi City (…
- November 30th, 2009
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The Romanian Peasant Museum
If you want to find out more about a country, study its traditions. Romanian traditions are close connected to village and peasants’ life. So establishing of the Romanian Peasant Museum in Buchar…
- November 27th, 2009
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Roast beef Reuben sandwich
Here’s our first Food of the World dish from the USA. It’s from Food Shark marfa, Texas, which looks like a pretty cool place to eat. The Reuben sandwich has a long history and there are many rum…
- November 25th, 2009
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All about Dublin. And hats!
On the pages of the St. Stephens’s Green Preservation society you’ll find tons of usefull information on the going ons in the capital of Ireland, interesting for both visitors and locals. Here’…
- November 24th, 2009
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Meet Özlem and Javier
Where are you from? Özlem: I’m Turkish and Javier is Spanish Where did you meet? We met in Bursa (in Turkey) in a dinner organized by a mutual friend. What language do you speak at home? At the be…
- November 22nd, 2009
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New Zealand’s Volcanic Vanilla
Although New Zealand has some beautiful beaches dotted with palm trees, sometimes people don’t realise that it is not a tropical country at all. In fact, our winter in the North Island tends to be c…
- November 20th, 2009
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Looking for genuine Romanian food?
Lately, Bio (organic) and Homemade Bucharest fairs are actually ”invaded” by urban people in search of genuine food. Why? Yummy - it’s easy to understand just looking at these photos! Homemade c…
- November 18th, 2009
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Virtual Vietnam
We do not know much about who’s behind Tell me about Hanoi, but it is a good source of photos and stories about Hanoi and Vietnam. Be patient with the ads, behind them are lurking interesting posts…
- November 17th, 2009
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Iceland wants to serve the world
So you’re a big company with loads of servers; big computers which power your website and other IT. The servers need electricity to stay alive and they need cooling otherwise all that computing mak…
- November 15th, 2009
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Meet Sharell (Australia) and Pradeep (India)
This is the first in our series of interviews with cross-cultural couples around the world. Hope you enjoy it! If you’d like to participate in a future interview send over your details. Where are yo…
- November 13th, 2009
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Temple Fair Phad Thai
Today’s Food of the World photo is a Phad Thai station in Temple Fair, Bangkok, taken by gnarlykitty. Thanks Kitty! Kitty also wrote about how to find good Phad Thai in an earlier post. Do you wan…
- November 11th, 2009
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Nigerian Conversationalist
PDBraide serves musings on Nigerian life by Pam, an artiste / NGO volunteer / consultant / producer. She writes about varied aspects of Nigeria; celebrations of Nigerian achievers and calls to action…
- November 9th, 2009
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Summer Rituals in New Zealand
Marie lives in Auckland, New Zealand but was born in the United States and is a dual-national. She has lived in five countries altogether but sees New Zealand as her true home. She loves travel, and l…
- November 6th, 2009
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Every place has a thousand stories
If you haven’t already seen it, I highly recommend making 20 minutes to listen to this talk by Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on the danger of a single story. It’s funny, articulate and…
- November 5th, 2009
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An Ethiopian feast
Thanks again to prondis in kenya for this photo, from an Ethiopian restaurant in Nairobi, Kenya. If you liked this, check out our Food of the World photo group on Flickr to see more photos posted by…
- November 4th, 2009
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Chinese in English
IfGoGo’s theme is Chinese in English. It’s written by a diverse team: Chinese people living in China, Chinese people living abroad, foreigners in China. No single stories here! Each post shows a d…
- November 2nd, 2009
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Immigrants: Citizens of the World
This is a guest post from Gina Vazquez, who is a Mexican living in Canada. Her blog Let’s Talk Languages is about languages, diversity and the experience of living abroad. A few days ago I was writi…
- October 30th, 2009
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Iraqi barbeque
Thanks to Najma for sharing these kebabs on the barbeque from Iraq. Do you want to share photos of your country’s food? Join our photo group on Flickr and show us your photos. Read more: Madrid str…
- October 28th, 2009
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Better taste than …sorry
Better taste than sorry is one of the few German lifestyle-blogs written in English. Markus Reuter a.k.a. roitsch blogs about “everything he likes”, which happily for his readers is about a broad…
- October 26th, 2009
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Waste to goodness
Danamon Peduli’s Danamon Go Green project turns organic waste from Indonesia’s produce markets into fertiliser. This approach has two benefits: it improves hygiene around marketplaces by getting…
- October 23rd, 2009
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Pasta Colombiana
Here is more proof that Italians are not the only people who eat pasta. Thanks to progresivo for sharing this Colombian pasta with 5 cheeses (pasta a los 5 quesos). Do you want to share photos of you…
- October 22nd, 2009
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Cindy King’s Twitter Interviews
Cindy King is an experienced cross-cultural sales and marketing specialist. She’s also a skilled social media user. Cindy has come up with an innovative way to exploit the power of social media in…
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Looking for cross-cultural couples
Are you in a cross-cultural relationship? We’d like to interview you for My Partner is a Foreigner. On this part of PocketCultures we have featured some really great stories from people in cross-cul…
- October 21st, 2009
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Singapore through the window of a taxi
A Singapore Taxi Driver’s diary is written by a former scientific researcher who for reasons ‘uniquely Singapore’ ended up as a taxi driver. As a result, I am driving taxi to make a living and…
- October 20th, 2009
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Global goes local
At PocketCultures we love to hear it from the locals. That’s why we’re building a team of regional contributors from all over the world to bring you insights into their countries and cultures. And…
- October 16th, 2009
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Japanese mushrooms
We loved this photo of fresh mushrooms in Osaka, Japan. Like so many things in Japan, they are beautifully presented. Thanks to seikinsou for sharing this photo. If you liked this, check out our Foo…
- October 14th, 2009
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Whisky on Islay
The Islayblog is about the Isle of Islay, an island in the Inner Hebrides off the west coast of Scotland. It is run by German expat Armin Grewe, a regular visitor to the Island. Besides useful inform…
