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My journey to and on the Mauritanian Iron Ore Train

Plug Me In

Adventures with public transport to EXPO 2020 Dubai Since my return in 2019, I’ve become an “ inspiring speaker ,” and in 2022, I received an invitation to speak at EXPO 2020 in Dubai. Two trains a day connect Paris with the Catalan capital. It’s legal to ride this train, it’s also free.

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Surprising, Unsettling, Surreal: Roaming Through Saudi Arabia

Baua Electric

It represents a sea change in a country that, until 2019, issued no nonreligious tourist visas and instead catered almost exclusively to Muslim pilgrims visiting Mecca and Medina, Islam’s two holiest cities. Like Petra , its better-known counterpart in Jordan, Hegra was built by the Nabateans, an ancient people who flourished 2,000 years ago.