Travel Digest #644

steemitworldmap (75)in #traveldigest • 5 years ago (edited)

Introduction

Hi there, it's @LivingUKTaiwan here with the weekend edition of the #TravelDigest. We have a really interesting selection of featured posts today, including an 18th century Irish prison, the first pride parade in Bosnia and one of the last traditional markets in Malaysia. Enjoy!!!

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Travel Digest

#1 Kilmainham Gaol - Dublin and his old prison. by @capitanonema

Narrow and cramped cells, constant punishments for trying to get information from the revolutionaries, terror was palpable up to the shooting that took place in the courtyard of the building, precisely in the courtyard, on a wall, you can still see holes left by the bullets.Even many ordinary people were imprisoned here, including children, there was no distinction of sex and everything was allowed.

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#2 Bosnia's First Pride… Finally in 2019 by @pushpedal

In July 2019 we were in Plovdiv where they had an exhibition called Balkan Prides³. It was here while reading about the violence past of earlier prides that we discovered the opportunity to be a part of history. Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) was the last Balkan country to have their pride after years of cancellation and struggle. It was to be held in September 2019 which gave us plenty of time to plan for.

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#3 The Century Old Menglembu Wet Market, A Slowly Dying Tradition by @littlenewthings

Wet markets....To many countries in South East Asia, some might still exist, but in Malaysia, especially in the capital city, wet market that are more than a hundred years old are becoming scarce to come by, because Malaysians are slowly preferring the air-conditioned supermarkets and malls over the sweat and heat under the blue sky to do their grocery.

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