United Kingdom
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Wednesday, 3 Sep 2008 | Views [817] | Comments [2]
I’m home now. Well, I’m as good as home. I’m at my Grandparents in Suffolk. It’s only a week since I left Mongolia, but memories fade fast and this is perhaps my last blog. Overlaid with the flight home (business class, naturally), then two days in ... Read more >
Wednesday, 30 Apr 2008 | Views [594] | Comments [6]
For the entire week I thought it was the wrong day. This wouldn't matter, you would have thought, not when you're camping in the forest 5km from the nearest town. Well no. But when you're supposed to ring someone on Friday, it takes on a new urgency.... Read more >
Wednesday, 30 Apr 2008 | Views [832] | Comments [6]
I should have known better. I should have realised it wasn't going to be that easy. People had said things like, "Sure, you can do Fontainebleau on foot," heavily accenting the possibility of it, "But I probably wouldn't. "... Read more >
Monday, 28 Apr 2008 | Photo Gallery
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Monday, 28 Apr 2008 | Views [550] | Comments [3]
Leaving Cherbourg was not going to be something I particularly mourned. Paris, with all its mixed memories, is still one of my favourite cities in the world and I couldn't wait to see my friends and enjoy it all. The train there proved a ... Read more >
Monday, 28 Apr 2008 | Views [549] | Comments [1]
Thank you everyone who took the time to comment or email - I will do my best not to sound too pompous, though I'll struggle. Anyway I'm back in Paris now, after nearly a week camping in the forest of Fontainebleau in a trip in which so much went wrong ... Read more >
Tuesday, 22 Apr 2008 | Views [1265] | Comments [8]
The crash of splintering glass jerked me from my sleep as the books from my bag were scattered across the floor. The coach lurched to a halt and the confusion was immediate. A car lay, sprawled and flattened in the outside lane. My journey is, I hope, ... Read more >
