Travels Here and There - Welch, Larry
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Travels Here and There possesses stories from the heart about places far and near. Included in this volume readers are entertained by Larry Welchs recollections of travel to Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Malawi, Michigan, Nepal, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Ukraine, Vietnam, and Zambia. The final chapter is a personal story that involved a short journey from home to a hospital in Thailand and what transpired. Embedded with the stories are descriptions of geography, history, urban planning, and details on what went into making people famous or infamous as the case might be.…mehr

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Travels Here and There possesses stories from the heart about places far and near. Included in this volume readers are entertained by Larry Welchs recollections of travel to Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Malawi, Michigan, Nepal, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Ukraine, Vietnam, and Zambia. The final chapter is a personal story that involved a short journey from home to a hospital in Thailand and what transpired. Embedded with the stories are descriptions of geography, history, urban planning, and details on what went into making people famous or infamous as the case might be. Larry likes heroes and that shows through in his descriptions of what made some people great. Strolling through castles, fortresses, markets, museums, palaces, parks, Roman ruins, or dining on street food and riding buses or trains, will leave readers hungry for more and even give them a better appreciation for their own travels. In Innocents Abroad, Mark Twain wrote, Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all ones lifetime. Amen, Mr. Twain!
Autorenporträt
Larry Welch was a resident of Hanoi for two years. In his first year he taught English with Horizon International Bilingual School; in his second year he wandered through North Vietnam meeting people, learning about culture, history and lifestyle, and taking photographs. Before employment in Vietnam he was an English teacher and vice principal with the Horizon International School in Rangoon, Burma and for two years he taught students at the Suankularb Wittayalai Rangsit School near Bangkok. When away from Thailand he continues contact with his students and has ties to the Full Moon Rubber Plantation at Nakhon Phanom. More recently, he has been a volunteer teacher with students at a small village school in Northeast Thailand. A veteran of only six years of teaching, it is his belief that it's impossible to have a bad day when surrounded by the good natured humanity that children bring to their classrooms.