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Martin Oliver

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  • Americas

Salvador Bahia, a Brazilian city like no other

  • 12/01/2022
  • Martin Oliver
After something of a wandering lifetime, Martin Oliver finds himself surviving Covid in Brazil's one-time coastal Capital, Salvador.
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  • Asia Pacific
  • Europe

Memories of 1960’s Funfairs on Hearsall Common

  • 07/06/2021
  • Martin Oliver
The sounds and smells of a Bangkok street send Martin Oliver down memory lane, to a past where funfairs visited his childhood home.
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  • Asia Pacific

Fruit isn’t always optional in a Thai ice tea

  • 07/05/2021
  • Martin Oliver
At a Bangkok cafe, Martin Oliver tries to order a plain Iced Tea. But as often in Thailand, the locals get their own way.
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In defence of Coventry, flattened by bombs in WW2

  • 07/04/2021
  • Martin Oliver
From his Bangkok bar-stool, Coventry native Martin Oliver comes across a scathing review of his home city. He says it's not all bad, though noticeably is living abroad.
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  • Pole to Pole

Signing up for a life at sea

  • 09/03/2016
  • Martin Oliver
If you'd ever had the romantic dream of running away to sea, Martin Oliver has a first-hand guide to what it's like when you sign up to work in the merchant navy.
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A beginner’s guide to the dread game of golf

  • 01/04/2015
  • Martin Oliver
Even golfers struggle to explain just what it is they like about the game. Martin Oliver's shot-by-shot account of a long hot day on a golf course is unlikely to make many new converts.
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  • Americas

Crime and inflation in rural Brazil

  • 25/03/2014
  • Martin Oliver
Brazil's inflationary era gave this South American country something of the atmosphere of the USA's Wild West. In this extract from his book, 'The Never Lonely Planet', Martin Oliver recounts the day-to-day experience of turbulent years.
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A guide to world football – specially in Brazil

  • 23/02/2014
  • Martin Oliver
To many people football is a passion even more important than travel. In this extract from his book, 'The Never Lonely Planet', Martin Oliver finds the two can perfectly combine.
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  • Americas

When goodbye is the longest word

  • 23/01/2014
  • Martin Oliver
When Martin Oliver finds himself broke and on the streets of Rio de Janiero a bar-girl proves a surprising help. In this extract from his book The 'Never Lonely Planet' a Brazilian girl called Rosalinee finds him work on an offshore oil survey vessel
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