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From surf school to Spanish class, living la pura vida in Costa Rica
There are few better ways to start your week after a tiring weekend when, upon arriving at school, your teacher tells you, with all the unadulterated joy of a five-year-old opening their first present on Christmas morning: it’s time to … Continue reading
“You’re in heaven right now…”
Gazing out over a mountain of tropical rainforest and sinking into a chocolate bath with floating marshmallows, it’s easy to believe that my friend had it right when she told me: “You’re in heaven right now”. There are some places … Continue reading
Posted in Costa Rica
Tagged costa rica, health, los altos de eros, pura vida, spa, wellness
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Learn It, Live It, Give It!
So I wrote this next post on the plane back from Trinidad & Tobago, in between lucid sleep, and then lost my notes but, since arriving back in London and trying to shake off jet lag, felt encouraged to start … Continue reading
Posted in Costa Rica
Tagged blog, emergingnations, jairek robbins, john lennon, london, travel
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‘The happiest place on earth’
So they call this place ‘the happiest in the world’ – and the phalanx of cab drivers waiting outside for me were certainly friendly enough: ‘taxi amigo’, they beamed, as I meandered towards the more interesting option of the bus … Continue reading
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Nigeria: gateway to Africa?
‘Nigeria’ evokes many things in a casual conversation: instability, a growing terror threat instigated by an islamic sect and, perhaps most pointedly: why go to Nigeria at all? But what you might hear less of, and indeed will soon be hearing … Continue reading
Stats signal ‘r’ for recession as Russia fears catching the Flu
In good times Russia, the ‘R’ in BRIC, was an economy growing rapidly and with big opportunities for its 143 million population. However, an economy heavily reliant on fossil fuels has failed to sufficiently diversify and growth has stalled since … Continue reading
Posted in Russia
Tagged BRICs, emerging nations, recession, Ruble crisis, Russian Flu, vladimir putin
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First world prices, third world conditions?
This is the second piece by our emerging markets specialist, a management consultant with deep-rooted experience of on-the-ground life in some of the world’s ’emerging nations’. Now back in London, he explores the daily commute, which I am sure will … Continue reading
Posted in UK, London
Tagged Delhi metro, London Underground, rush hour, third world, Tokyo metro
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Russian military hovercraft gives sunbathers an eyeful
This next post is by a close friend of mine who, with extensive experience in developing markets, has a few tales to tell, by turns revelatory, compelling and oftentimes humorous. An international management consultant, this is his first post in … Continue reading
Posted in Russia
Tagged beach, emerging markets, hovercraft, Kaliningrad, Russia, summer
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“Come and see my Dubai…the greatest city in the world”
Sometimes you hear a distinctive voice whose every syllable is familiar, a genial lilt that stops you at once; it takes a moment to collect yourself, look long into a morass of memories and then, yes, there it is: look … Continue reading
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