Troy's Gone Walkabout
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Sep 2011  
(General Travel)
"Only fools stay connected while travelling: the luddites fight back"
Crikey

In response to a piece published on Crikey’s travel blog Back in a Bit about the benefits of using smartphones while travelling, Troy Wilkinson, who prefers travelling the old fashioned way, fights back.

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Jul 2011  
England: Yorkshire
"The desolate, windswept moors of Yorkshire"
Crikey

The requirements were simple: A bloke weekend with a close mate, somewhere in Europe we’d both never been, easily accessible for both of us, preferably warm and exotic. Quite how we came up with Yorkshire is a bit of a mystery.

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Note: This is a condensed version of a travelogue originally posted here.

Apr 2011  
Belgium: Poperinge
"A personal Anzac journey: finding a fallen family member"
Crikey

To Troy Wilkinson, G T C Williams was nothing more than the name of his long dead great-grandmother’s brother. That is, until a pilgrimage to his grave in Belgium made him examine the young soldier’s short life.

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Feb 2011  
Switzerland
"Ivan, rapist, soon to be Swiss?: the billboards of Switzerland"
Crikey

The citizens of Switzerland love a referendum, with three to four held per year. With each contentious referendum comes posters from the fringes of Swiss society, packed with racism, anti-immigration and Islamophobic rhetoric.

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