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Movie locations around the world part 5
This is part 5 of my quest for finding movie locations around the world. Contents: Once Upon a Time in America, John Wick, John Wick 2, X-Men First Class, The Adjustment Bureau, Spectre, When Harry Met Sally, Notting Hill, The Avengers, Knight and Day, Argo, Battleship Potemkin, Yes Man, Spider-Man 3, Kickboxer.
Movie locations around the world
This is the first part of my quest for finding movie locations around the world. Contents: Mission Impossible, Talented Mr Ripley, Lost in Translation, Fellowship of the Ring, Highlander, French Connection, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Le fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain, Die Another Day, Interview with the Vampire, The Beach, Rendition, La Dolce Vita, Moulin Rouge.
Review: All Inclusive
I’m a frequent reader of Swedish travel magazine Vagabond, where Johan Tell used to be one of the regular writers. This book is a collection of his small stories previously published in the magazine, describing hilarious issues on the road.
Review: The Beach
Alex Garland’s debut novel “The Beach”, published in 1996, was once practically mandatory equipment for backpackers. You saw battered copies everywhere in hostel common rooms, beach cafés, airport floors, wedged between a Lonely Planet and somebody’s increasingly questionable underwear.
Epicenter in Khao Lak
Khao Lak was one of those sleepy Thai beach towns where time took a vacation. A thin strip of sand pressed between the dense jungle and the Andaman Sea, dotted with cheap bungalows and the occasional Western escapee trying to outrun the noise of home.
One night in Bangkok
Bangkok doesn’t sleep. It sweats, hazzles and seduces. It’s a neon fever dream that hits you like a tuk-tuk running red lights at 3 am. A city with no filters, no cares and certainly no apologies.
Diving at the Similan Islands
Out there, somewhere off the Andaman coast of Thailand, are nine chunks of granite scattered like a careless god’s afterthought. The Similan Islands are remote, wild and blissfully ignored by the sunburned herds sipping cheap cocktails in Phuket. This is where you go when you crave the silence of the deep.
Finding the beach in Phi Phi Islands
Thailand has long been one of the great stops on the backpacker pilgrimage. People arrive by the planeload for cheap food, cheaper beer, relentless sunshine and beaches so offensively beautiful they seem designed specifically to make everyone back home hate you.
The temples of Chiang Mai
Chiang Mai is the biggest city in northern Thailand, but far more friendly than it’s chaotic sibling Bangkok. Up here in the north, the heat is less suffocating than Bangkok’s chokehold, but it still clings to your skin like a bad Nickelback song.