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Off to the City of Djinns

By Tony Li on 1 April 2008 at 21:36 in ShiftLogs

Time is nearly upon me to do what I've been planning to do for the past 18 months and finally leave the UK to volunteer abroad. I leave on the 16th of April and I'll be spending 5.5 months in Delhi working for an environmental charity and then a further 3-4 months travelling back to the UK very slowly indeed. More

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