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Picture Postcards: Funny photo from Bangkok, Thailand

The occasional need to get to a certain room quickly is universal, so we thought this photo of a Bangkok toilet sign was quite funny. It was sent in my our contributor Kelly Pohorelic in Canada.

It is almost May and so we are getting ready for the next Picture Postcard topic which is going to be…Street Scenes Around the World! So, if you have any photos you want to contribute, as always, please just pop them in our Flickr group with a good decription on them. If you are not on Flickr, you can still contribute. Just leave a comment on this post and someone will get in touch with you.

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Channel Islands
Jersey (also Channel Islands)
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Thailand: work is play?

The cultural expertise quiz is back, after a break last week to make room for our weddings around the word series.

This week, we’re talking about Thailand. Here’s the question:

Thailand is one place in the world where you can truly say that “work is play.”

True or False?

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Picture Postcards: Markets in Thailand and Romania

Food preparation items are a favourite buy at markets around the world, it seems. Photos this week show steaming baskets on sale at Yaowarat, Bangkok, Thailand’s Chinatown and handcrafted pots and utensils in Bucharest, Romania at the Folk Festival & Traditional Handmade Fair in Cismigiu Park in June 2010.

by gnarlykitty

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Breakfast around the world

What’s for breakfast where you are? In some countries, sweet foods are the norm. In others, breakfast is always savoury. Sometimes it’s a light meal, other times it’s a filling dish that will keep you going for many hours.

Selected from our previous posts and photos posted in our Picture Postcards photo group, here’s what PocketCultures readers and contributors around the world are eating for breakfast.

Italy

Photo by Marcello

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Best of of 2010: a world tour in twenty-three posts

We’d like to say goodbye to 2010 wıth a world tour of favourite posts from each of our contributors. Here they are, in the order in which each one celebrates midnight. Happy New Year!

Marie (New Zealand): The New Zealand Dairy

“Where would Kiwis be without the local dairy? Certainly situations such as running out of the milk needed for the perfect cup of tea or not having enough snacks to share while watching a film on TV could get quite hairy.”

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When Real China Doesn’t Feel So Chinese

Living in Beijing, I am constantly exposed to the center of China-ness. Many things in this city remind me of the magnificent China: classic landmarks like the Forbidden City and the Olympic Bird’s Nest, intimidating government buildings that sprawl across the city, and eight-lane avenues which are so wide that it would require two red light sessions to cross them, to name a few. Beijing is the place where the Chinese government officials meet foreign dignitaries, where important national policies are made, and where the 60th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party was wildly celebrated. The whole of China follows Beijing time. Whether you live in a village a few kilometers away from Pakistan or North Korea, your clocks tick at the same pace and tell the same time.

Living in the center of everything, it is easy for a Beijinger to forget that real China exists much further beyond the Beijing bubble. This is utterly unfortunate because China is a massive country that is amazingly diverse. But to recognize that China is diverse and to experience it are two separate notions.

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