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Author: Gabriel Hershman

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Book review: Every Parent’s Nightmare

August 1, 2013August 2, 2013 Gabriel Hershman

Murphy’s Law says that everything that can go wrong will go wrong. This has always struck me when reading about

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The road less travelled in the Rhodope

July 5, 2013May 10, 2024 Gabriel Hershman archaeology

Fleeing an unseasonably cool and wet July day in Sofia, we headed south to Kurdjali on an organised tour* –

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‘At the mercy of psychopaths’: Palfreeman interviewed

April 8, 2013February 17, 2016 Gabriel Hershman

I’m still Jock Nobody to the Australian authorities, complains Jock Palfreeman, despite the recent publication of a book documenting his

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Leisure 

Restaurant Review: Motto

June 4, 2012May 27, 2013 Gabriel Hershman Sofia

Motto was the scene of one of our most memorable meals when we arrived in Bulgaria five years ago. And

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