Couchfish
By Stuart McDonald
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The Couchfish podcast. Following a day by day itinerary through Southeast Asia—for all those people stranded on their couch.
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Couchfish Day 382: Learning By Doing
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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Couchfish Day 381: Always Chat With Your Landscaper
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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Couchfish Day 380: Bingin Time
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Dec 02, 2023 |
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Couchfish Day 379: War Stories
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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Couchfish Day 378: A Special Kind Of Energy
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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Couchfish: Do Locals Eat Nutella Waffles?
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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Couchfish Day 377: From The Mountains To The Sea
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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Couchfish: The Rent Seekers Of Travel
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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Couchfish Day 376: Molasses waves
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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Couchfish Day 375: Two Cocks And A Rock
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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Couchfish: From Elephants to Whale Sharks
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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Couchfish Day 374: “Take The Left And Keep Going”
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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Couchfish Day 373: What Wallace Didn’t Tell You
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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Couchfish Day 372: Four Fingers For The Gods
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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Couchfish: Playing Your Cards Right
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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Couchfish: Climb Every Mountain, Part 2
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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Couchfish: Climb Every Mountain, Part 1
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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Couchfish: How Not To Do Singapore
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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Couchfish: Left Guessing
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Aug 27, 2023 |
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Couchfish: Fox Meet Hen House
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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Couchfish: A Better Kind Of Calculator
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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Couchfish: Some Thoughts On 19 Years
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Jul 15, 2023 |
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Couchfish: Thoughts On Travelling in Sarawak
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Jul 09, 2023 |
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Couchfish: What Is Really Missing?
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May 29, 2023 |
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Couchfish: Just delightful!
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May 16, 2023 |
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Couchfish: Sustainable Vietnam Part 2—Three Kinds Of Gold
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May 07, 2023 |
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Couchfish: Sustainable Vietnam Part 1—Plastic, People, Power
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Apr 23, 2023 |
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Couchfish: Colours, People, Ghosts And More
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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Couchfish: Slowing Down
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Apr 08, 2023 |
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Couchfish: Dumb Pipes
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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Couchfish: The Best Of Intentions
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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Couchfish: Thailand Announces 800+ New Islands
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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Couchfish: The Wheels Go Round And Round
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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Couchfish: Reframing And Reshaping
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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Couchfish: A Smarter Tourist Tax
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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Couchfish: The Stochastic Parrot Guide To Luang Prabang
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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Couchfish: Bring Me Your Carbon
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Jan 27, 2023 |
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Couchfish: The Erosion Of A Dream
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Jan 20, 2023 |
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Couchfish: Stay Another Day, Huế edition.
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Jan 15, 2023 |
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Couchfish: In The Land Of The Godless Communists
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Jan 09, 2023 |
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Couchfish: 2023 Will Be The Year Of ...
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Dec 19, 2022 |
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Couchfish: A Better OTA
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Dec 17, 2022 |
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Couchfish: Is This Your Dream Quest?
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Dec 12, 2022 |
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Couchfish: Taking A Long Term View
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Dec 11, 2022 |
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Couchfish: The Writing On The Wall
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Dec 10, 2022 |
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Couchfish: Foundations Matter
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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Couchfish: Follow The Money
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Nov 27, 2022 |
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Couchfish: Reality Check
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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Couchfish: The Petro-bourgeoisie
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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Couchfish: Zoom in to the Red Plastic Chairs
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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Couchfish: The Year Is 2006. The Town Is Luang Prabang
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Oct 16, 2022 |
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Couchfish: The Benevolent Lie
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Oct 11, 2022 |
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Couchfish: Nice Tourism
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Oct 10, 2022 |
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Couchfish: National Chocolate Milk Day
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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Couchfish: Niratha’s Wanderings
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Sep 17, 2022 |
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Couchfish: A Personal History of Flying
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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Couchfish: The Between Fars
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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Couchfish Day 326: The Other Ko Chang
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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Couchfish: Norman Doors
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Aug 22, 2022 |
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Couchfish: What Matters?
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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Couchfish: The Deportation Daily
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Jul 29, 2022 |
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Couchfish: Digital Nomad Visas Blah Blah Blah
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Jul 18, 2022 |
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Couchfish Day 315: Lessons From Across the Sea
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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Couchfish: Komodo Dreaming
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Jul 05, 2022 |
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Couchfish: What would Buddha think?
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Jun 05, 2022 |
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Couchfish: Don’t listen to Neil
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May 27, 2022 |
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Couchfish Day 306: One Faith Two Takes
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May 25, 2022 |
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Couchfish: A Seed of Interest
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May 23, 2022 |
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Couchfish: Instagram’s grandparent
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May 14, 2022 |
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Couchfish: Get ya gear on
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May 06, 2022 |
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Couchfish Day 300: How I do what I do
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May 03, 2022 |
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Couchfish: East Java sojourn day 7, all good things come to an end
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Apr 30, 2022 |
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Couchfish: East Java sojourn day 6, achievement unlocked
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Apr 29, 2022 |
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Couchfish: East Java sojourn day 5, roads and lava
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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Couchfish: East Java sojourn, day 4. On the road
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Apr 27, 2022 |
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Couchfish: East Java sojourn, day 3. The pointless beach
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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Couchfish: East Java sojourn, day 2, Ghost Empire
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Apr 25, 2022 |
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Couchfish: East Java sojourn, day 1
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Apr 23, 2022 |
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Couchfish: East Java sojourn
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Apr 22, 2022 |
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Couchfish Day 298: An elevator to die for
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Apr 20, 2022 |
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Couchfish: But what does it smell like?
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Apr 15, 2022 |
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Couchfish Day 297: The flight attendant
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Apr 13, 2022 |
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Couchfish Day 294: Eating KL
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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Couchfish turns two, part two
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Mar 31, 2022 |
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Couchfish turns two
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Mar 30, 2022 |
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Couchfish: Golden kids
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Mar 21, 2022 |
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Couchfish: An exciting time
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Mar 07, 2022 |
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Couchfish: Tourism’s bloody shin
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Feb 14, 2022 |
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Couchfish: Don’t leave the lights on
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Feb 13, 2022 |
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Couchfish: Baby steps
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Jan 31, 2022 |
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Couchfish: Where to from here?
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Nov 30, 2021 |
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Couchfish: Ghost story
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Nov 21, 2021 |
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Couchfish: Southeast Asia’s new borders
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Nov 16, 2021 |
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Couchfish: The Great Adjustment
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Nov 07, 2021 |
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Couchfish Day 277: A jungle oasis
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Nov 03, 2021 |
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Couchfish: Reshaping tourism
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Nov 02, 2021 |
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Couchfish: Suntory time
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Oct 19, 2021 |
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Couchfish Day 272: Eating Kuantan
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Oct 18, 2021 |
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Couchfish: Take the train not the plane
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Oct 17, 2021 |
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Couchfish: A Thai jigsaw
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Oct 12, 2021 |
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Couchfish: A leaky robot
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Oct 10, 2021 |
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Couchfish Day 269: Awi’s Yellow House
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Oct 07, 2021 |
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Couchfish: High-value blah blah blah
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Oct 05, 2021 |
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Couchfish: You can’t treat gangrene with a bandaid
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Oct 03, 2021 |
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Couchfish: Asking the right questions
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Sep 28, 2021 |
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Couchfish: A Cambodian interlude
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Sep 26, 2021 |
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Couchfish Day 264: A stroll
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Sep 23, 2021 |
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Couchfish: Turning community into kindling
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Sep 22, 2021 |
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Couchfish: The wrong baby steps
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Sep 19, 2021 |
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Couchfish Day 261: What I just did—nobody knows it
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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Couchfish: Hey TAT, tell me what you really think!
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Sep 14, 2021 |
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Couchfish: Keeping up with the Joneses
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Sep 12, 2021 |
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Couchfish: 121 days
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Sep 08, 2021 |
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Couchfish: Why don’t you speak my language?
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Sep 07, 2021 |
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Couchfish Day 256: A literal interpretation ...
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Sep 01, 2021 |
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Couchfish: I love you big time baby
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Aug 31, 2021 |
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Couchfish: Everything was fine until it wasn’t
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Aug 29, 2021 |
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Couchfish Day 254: Pretty boats and a painter
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Aug 26, 2021 |
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Couchfish: Knick-knacks
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Aug 24, 2021 |
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Couchfish Day 252: Travel with not like
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Aug 23, 2021 |
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Couchfish: A haunting tale
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Aug 22, 2021 |
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Couchfish Day 251: The good people of Yala
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Aug 19, 2021 |
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Couchfish Day 249: You’re a hobbyist
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Aug 15, 2021 |
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Couchfish: Long stay good time
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Aug 13, 2021 |
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Couchfish Day 247: A massif day
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Aug 11, 2021 |
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Couchfish: Eight meals
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Aug 10, 2021 |
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Couchfish: “Passports” please
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Aug 07, 2021 |
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Couchfish Day 245: A walk through history
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Aug 04, 2021 |
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Couchfish: A fun loop
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Aug 03, 2021 |
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Couchfish: See you in 2023
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Aug 01, 2021 |
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Couchfish Day 242: Heading south
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Jul 28, 2021 |
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Couchfish: Our own private island
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Jul 27, 2021 |
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Couchfish: Fuzzy math
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Jul 23, 2021 |
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Couchfish Day 239: It seemed like a good idea
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Jul 20, 2021 |
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Couchfish Day 238: A stroll around Ko Pha Ngan
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Jul 19, 2021 |
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Couchfish: A love letter to Amed
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Jul 16, 2021 |
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Couchfish: Fifteen years
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Jul 13, 2021 |
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Couchfish: The Phuket Sandpit...
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Jul 11, 2021 |
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Couchfish: Slowly slowly
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Jun 29, 2021 |
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Couchfish: The Covid travel writing sausage factory
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Jun 26, 2021 |
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Couchfish: The light and the dark
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Jun 22, 2021 |
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Couchfish: A chat on the beach
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Jun 19, 2021 |
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Couchfish Day 228: Keepsakes and hornbills
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Jun 15, 2021 |
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Couchfish: The Southeast Asia Tube
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May 18, 2021 |
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Couchfish Day 226: One night in Bangkok
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Apr 28, 2021 |
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Couchfish: Write me at Poste Restante
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Apr 27, 2021 |
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Couchfish: Things that go bump in the night
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Apr 23, 2021 |
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Couchfish: “I was in a plane crash last night.”
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Apr 20, 2021 |
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Couchfish: Did this really happen?
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Apr 16, 2021 |
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Couchfish: On Thai Island Times
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Apr 09, 2021 |
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Couchfish: A good trip with kids. Part 10
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Apr 06, 2021 |
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Couchfish: One year on
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Mar 31, 2021 |
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Couchfish: A good trip with kids. Part 9
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Mar 30, 2021 |
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Couchfish: A beautiful day
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Mar 26, 2021 |
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Couchfish: A good trip with kids. Part 8
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Mar 23, 2021 |
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Couchfish: A tilting point
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Mar 19, 2021 |
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Couchfish: A good trip with kids. Part 7
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Mar 16, 2021 |
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Couchfish: A good trip with kids. Part 6
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Mar 09, 2021 |
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Couchfish: Coffee with a war criminal
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Mar 06, 2021 |
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Couchfish: A good trip with kids. Part 5
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Mar 01, 2021 |
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Couchfish: “Oh s**t this is real—there is a coup”
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Mar 01, 2021 |
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Couchfish: On backpackers
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Feb 26, 2021 |
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Couchfish: A good trip with kids. Part 4
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Feb 23, 2021 |
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Couchfish: Local talent
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Feb 19, 2021 |
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Couchfish Day 200: Push your fingers into the soil
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Feb 17, 2021 |
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Couchfish: A good trip with kids. Part 3
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Feb 16, 2021 |
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Couchfish: An accidental review of The Meaning Of Travel
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Feb 12, 2021 |
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Couchfish: A good trip, with kids. Part 2
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Feb 09, 2021 |
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Couchfish: The final stages of decay
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Feb 05, 2021 |
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Couchfish: A good trip, with kids. Part 1
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Feb 02, 2021 |
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Couchfish: You’re doing it wrong
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Jan 30, 2021 |
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Couchfish: Southeast Asia in a day—virtually
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Jan 26, 2021 |
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Couchfish: The Pirates
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Jan 22, 2021 |
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Couchfish: Things that float
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Jan 20, 2021 |
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Couchfish: Tell me your secrets
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Jan 17, 2021 |
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Couchfish: Navigating Nakhon Nowhere
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Jan 12, 2021 |
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Couchfish: All about Indonesian food
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Jan 08, 2021 |
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Couchfish: A hole in the earth
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Jan 05, 2021 |
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Couchfish Day 174: Meeting a returnee in Phan Rang–Tháp Chàm
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Dec 11, 2020 |
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Couchfish Week 34: On walking
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Dec 05, 2020 |
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Couchfish Day 169: How to start Chợ Lớn
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Dec 04, 2020 |
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Couchfish Week 33: The Mekong
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Nov 27, 2020 |
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Couchfish week 32: On learning to not dive
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Nov 20, 2020 |
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Couchfish Week 31: Single serving friends
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Nov 13, 2020 |
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Couchfish Day 151: A tattoo in Rạch Giá
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Nov 10, 2020 |
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Couchfish Week 30: Six degrees of separation
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Nov 06, 2020 |
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Couchfish Week 29: The unending smallness of Java
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Oct 31, 2020 |
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Couchfish Week 28: Spiderman
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Oct 24, 2020 |
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Couchfish Day 134: Crabs, an elephant, and bauk
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Oct 15, 2020 |
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Couchfish Day 133: Travel, interrupted
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Oct 08, 2020 |
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Couchfish Week 27: On colour
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Oct 03, 2020 |
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Couchfish Week 26: The way to a traveller’s heart is through their stomach
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Sep 26, 2020 |
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Couchfish Day 124: A love letter to Phnom Penh
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Sep 24, 2020 |
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Couchfish Week 25: Good people make a perfect place all the better
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Sep 18, 2020 |
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Couchfish Week 23: A weird hotel
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Sep 04, 2020 |
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Couchfish Week 22: Why do people travel?
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Aug 29, 2020 |
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Couchfish Week 21: Travellers behaving badly
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Aug 21, 2020 |
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Couchfish Day 100: One hundred days in review
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Aug 19, 2020 |
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Couchfish Diversion 16: Châu Đốc
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Aug 18, 2020 |
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Couchfish Week 20: Rinjani
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Aug 14, 2020 |
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Couchfish Diversion 15: Do Don Khon
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Aug 12, 2020 |
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Couchfish Day 93: Gearing up
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Aug 10, 2020 |
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Couchfish week 19: Death Island
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Aug 07, 2020 |
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Couchfish Diversion 14: Two islands, two beaches
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Aug 04, 2020 |
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Couchfish Day 89: Fire!
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Aug 04, 2020 |
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Couchfish Week 18: The artefact smuggler
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Jul 31, 2020 |
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Couchfish Day 87: A wrap on the Dien Bien Phu loop
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Jul 31, 2020 |
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Couchfish Diversion 13: West Sumbawa, Indonesia
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Jul 29, 2020 |
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Couchfish Week 17: I need a gun
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Jul 24, 2020 |
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Couchfish Diversion 12: You should have been here yesterday. Really?
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Jul 21, 2020 |
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Couchfish Week 16: You don’t bat for the other side
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Jul 17, 2020 |
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Couchfish Week 15: The unluckiest traveller on earth
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Jul 10, 2020 |
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Couchfish Week 14: Would you like my daughter? I’ll be back in a week.
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Jul 03, 2020 |
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Couchfish Diversion 11: Kompong Thom, Cambodia
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Jun 30, 2020 |
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Couchfish Day 64: The worst day of travel. Ever.
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Jun 26, 2020 |
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Couchfish Diversion 10: Hue’s old city
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Jun 23, 2020 |
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Couchfish Week 12: The fabulist
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Jun 20, 2020 |
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Couchfish Day 59: Jars, spoons and a lunatic
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Jun 19, 2020 |
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Couchfish Week 11: Never trust a French arms dealer
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Jun 12, 2020 |
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Couchfish Day 54: Muang Ngoi & the people you meet
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Jun 12, 2020 |
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Couchfish Diversion 9: Lombok’s Eastern Gilis
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Jun 09, 2020 |
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Couchfish Week 10: The Boxing Day Tsunami and Covid19
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Jun 05, 2020 |
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Couchfish Diversion 8: Sangkhlaburi
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Jun 03, 2020 |
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Couchfish Week 9: That day the bus would have been a better choice
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May 29, 2020 |
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Couchfish Day 43: On a slow boat with a competitive traveller
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May 28, 2020 |
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Couchfish Diversion 7: Forget time at Lupa Masa, Malaysia
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May 26, 2020 |
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Couchfish Week 8: Of eating brains and a Burmese boat trip
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May 22, 2020 |
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Couchfish Diversion 6: Ko Sukorn, Thailand
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May 20, 2020 |
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Couchfish Week 7: On learning to dive
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May 15, 2020 |
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Couchfish Diversion 5: Sa Dec, Vietnam
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May 12, 2020 |
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Couchfish Week 6: A close call on the road to Phongsali
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May 08, 2020 |
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Couchfish Day 29: Nan rocks
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May 08, 2020 |
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Couchfish Diversion 4: Munduk, Indonesia
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May 05, 2020 |
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Couchfish Day 25: Nan, into the jungle and under the ground
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May 04, 2020 |
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Couchfish Week 5: Your arm, I need it!
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May 01, 2020 |
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Couchfish Day 22: Phrae
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Apr 29, 2020 |
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Couchfish Diversion 3: Pu Luong, Vietnam
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Apr 28, 2020 |
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Couchfish Week 4: Always get out of the boat. Part II
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Apr 24, 2020 |
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Couchfish Day 19: Phitsanulok
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Apr 24, 2020 |
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Couchfish Diversion 2: Kien Svay, Cambodia
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Apr 21, 2020 |
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Couchfish Day 16: Sukhothai
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Apr 21, 2020 |
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Couchfish Week 3: Always get out of the boat. Part I
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Apr 17, 2020 |
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Couchfish Day 12: The Death Highway
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Apr 15, 2020 |
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Couchfish Diversion 1: Ko Taen, Thailand
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Apr 14, 2020 |