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AudreyStories

AudreyStories

著者： Audrey Nolte Painter
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 Audrey tells "Bedtime Stories for Adults" in English: set in intriguing countries/places. Parts of the stories are true, the rest is imagination - as all good stories should be. All the stories contain fascinating historical facts about lesser known areas of Guatemala, Cuba, Serbia, South Africa, Bosnia, Mexico, Peru, China, India, Burma and more. These stories make good "Bedtime stories for Adults" who struggle to fall sleep, and are humorous - for easy listening while driving to work. Audrey is a South African Canadian storyteller and writer who has traveled to 41 countries. Some of the stories are in Afrikaans, Audrey's first language.© 2025 AudreyStories アート 旅行記・解説 社会科学
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  • "X marks the Spot." Rio de Janeiro. Brazil.

    "X marks the Spot." Rio de Janeiro. Brazil.
    2025/12/16

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    11. ENGLISH. BEDTIME STORIES FOR ADULTS. 11. "X marks the Spot." Rio de Janeiro. Brazil. Perdo Maria Boss had a secret. A dream. Much too big, and overly ambitious. He wanted to impress Princess Isabela of Portugal and asked her for money for his project. She said, "No." This priest died with a no, no, no and a no. Yet, "X marked the Spot" for where he wanted his dream to stand. Nobody knows his name in the big story about something rather magnificent. Let me tell you about the dream of Father Pedro Maria Boss.

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  • "The Listener." Ecuador.

    "The Listener." Ecuador.
    2024/09/24

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    “The Listener." Ecuador. Our story waits in Ecuador, in a tiny town against the western slope of a majestic mountain. Six extraordinary girls live here. There was a terrible cyclone the year of their birth and everybody believed that this storm blew in six special talents.

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  • "The Brave Bridge." Mostar. Bosnia.

    "The Brave Bridge." Mostar. Bosnia.
    2025/09/27

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    10. ENGLISH. BEDTIME STORIES FOR ADULTS. 10. "The Brave Bridge." Mostar. Bosnia. Once upon a time, in 1555 to be exact, there was an architect named Mimar. He was very talented, and a little arrogant. He told his friends that he would build something spectacular one day. His dream came true when Suleiman the Magnificent commissioned him to rebuild the wooden bridge over the Neretva river.

    Mimar was delighted. He hurried to the river and then … burst out in tears. “It’s 1555, for goodness sake! Impossible. The span is 30 meters. It cannot be done. No …!”
    Suleiman the Magnificent said: “I say yes! If you do not build a bridge with the limestone from the hills, I will kill you in a very cruel way.” Suleiman was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire with a very bad reputation for gruesome executions,

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