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Some hotels skip or renumber room 420 because the sign disappears so often.
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World · Around the World
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Superstition means a large share of tall buildings label the 13th floor as 14, especially in North America.
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World · Around the World
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Hello, please, thank you, sorry, yes, no, how much, where is, delicious and goodbye. Ten words changed every single interaction of the trip.
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World · Around the World
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In Chinese, Japanese and Korean the word for four sounds like death, so floors and room numbers often omit it.
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East Asia · Around the World
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Tipping is expected in the United States, unusual in Japan where it can cause offence, and rounded up in much of Europe.
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World · Around the World
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Three days without a signal in a mountain hut. By the second evening, everyone had stopped checking their pockets and started playing cards.
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World · Around the World
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In Bulgaria and parts of Greece a head shake can mean yes and a nod can mean no.
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Bulgaria · Around the World
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The first time is awkward. By the fourth you bring a notebook, sit at the bar, and end up talking to the chef.
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World · Around the World
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The thumbs-up gesture is offensive in several countries, so travellers are safer with words.
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Middle East and West Africa · Around the World
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Orderly single-file queuing is a strong norm in Britain and Japan but far looser in many other countries.
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World · Around the World
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Go where the traders eat, at the hour they eat, and order what is already on the counter. It has never once failed.
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World · Around the World
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About 35 percent of the world's population drives on the left, mostly in former British territories.
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World · Around the World
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Around 17 countries, mostly desert or small island states, have no permanent natural rivers.
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Saudi Arabia and others · Around the World
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We found one in a hostel with four years of notes in three handwritings. We added ours and left it on the shelf for the next person.
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World · Around the World
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Both microstates import essentially all their food, having no agricultural land at all.
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Europe · Around the World
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The United States, Liberia and Myanmar are the main holdouts from full metric adoption.
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World · Around the World
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Write one to your own address from each country. They arrive weeks later, out of order, when you have almost forgotten the day you wrote them.
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World · Around the World
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Nepal's double pennant is the famous exception, while Switzerland and the Vatican use squares.
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World · Around the World
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Twenty-four exposures for a two-week trip forces you to look before you press. Half of them were terrible and four of them are framed.
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World · Around the World
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Border towns sometimes straddle a time zone line, so neighbours legally live an hour apart.
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World · Around the World
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The line passes through thirteen nations, including Ecuador, Kenya, Indonesia and Brazil.
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Equator · Around the World
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Pick a direction, walk for ninety minutes, then turn around. You will find more than any list of top ten sights.
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World · Around the World
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GPS uses a reference meridian about 100 metres east of the brass line at Greenwich, due to a different geodetic model.
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Greenwich, England · Around the World
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Around 44 countries have no sea access, and two of them are surrounded entirely by other landlocked states.
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World · Around the World
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The missed ferry. The stranger who handed over a key. The meal that ran until midnight. If something happened to you on the road and you still think about it, send it - a few sentences is plenty, and we do the tidying up.
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