SYRIA | Tuesday, 27 Apr 2010 | Views [554]
and woke up in Turkey. over breakfast i was doing some book-learnin', and getting ready to go on another historical adventure. but this just seemed a little too organised, too predictable; i could feel a routine brewing...........then i remembered.... Read more >
SYRIA | Friday, 16 Apr 2010 | Views [726]
As i tow sunset with me into Mesopotamia, it tries to hide behind a patchwork of dust masking the horizon. I help it in this masquerade with a cloud of sweet narguilah smoke. A city hums across the river somewhere. A city in modern guise, its own masquerade, ... Read more >
SYRIA | Thursday, 15 Apr 2010 | Views [399]
I disembark. Iraq is over there. near those cliffs, I think. but the closest shave today is from, the delightful Barber-cum-Massage Therapist. instead of a border-crossing, i opt for one of those delectably random wends through the medina, and whatever ... Read more >
SYRIA | Thursday, 15 Apr 2010 | Views [448]
Rattling down highway 4 at Warp5 (Jean-Luc never traveled like this), a length contraction has transformed our minibus into a Microbus. i feel a certain camaraderie with the chickens in the coup that just shot past us (or did we shoot past them?). at ... Read more >
SYRIA | Wednesday, 7 Apr 2010 | Views [468]
stroll with me, if you will. i know you have a busy schedule, but i'm sure you can find the time. we're going to make a city together. we'll start by mixing Paris and Cairo into a swirling hot-city-fudge until neither is defined, and take it from there.... Read more >
JORDAN | Monday, 29 Mar 2010 | Views [385]
The Dead Sea!! the lowest point on Earth, at 422 m below sea level, i've never felt a weight on my shoulders like this. as i attempt to actually keep my legs in the water whilst "swimming", the raucous laughter gradually subsides into a permanent ... Read more >
JORDAN | Tuesday, 23 Mar 2010 | Views [399]
I have found Hyperbole-Man's nemesis. It is the rose city of Petra, carved for eternity into the lurid sandstone mountains standing guard below Wadi Musa in southern Jordan. i had a bag of cliches, but it spontaneously combusted when i tried to describe ... Read more >
JORDAN | Monday, 22 Mar 2010 | Views [348]
a pearl-white crescent moon precariously dangles above a blazing horizon. somebody has thrown lead-free red and yellow paint at the sky, and it is dripping all the way down its hypnotic blue walls. thankfully they took notes in class; amongst all that ... Read more >
EGYPT | Tuesday, 16 Mar 2010 | Views [359]
a long draw drags the stars within touching distance; they tickle. the Bedouin rugs stagger their way around the tent walls, circling a few times before stopping to rest in a drowsy configuration. behind the haze are human silhouettes; they stopped ... Read more >
EGYPT | Sunday, 7 Mar 2010 | Views [288]
and the coffee punches you in the face. where a poorly mounted douche spout smacks with force into the back of your scrotum. ouch. where chicha flavours colour the cityscape and slow time. where an out-of-date hard-hat is sufficient for a motorbike ... Read more >
EGYPT | Sunday, 7 Mar 2010 | Views [327]
I am King Nasser unifying the lands, and the the first Pharaoh. I wear the crowns of both Upper and Lower Egypt in a symbol of unification used by all Pharaohs in the coming millenia. I am Djoser, building the first step pyramid at Saqqara. Centuries ... Read more >
MOROCCO | Sunday, 21 Feb 2010 | Views [445]
we bid farewell to the land of constant smiles and instant brothers. a talkative land of intent listeners. a fairytale built upon sugar cones, dusted with cumin then drowned in home-made olive oil. of seatbelts held together with twine, and backtracking ... Read more >
MOROCCO | Friday, 19 Feb 2010 | Views [410]
the valley could only be described as regrowth after the apocalypse. "The Road", coloured green and mud. scrolling down our page mercifully slowly like a pensioner with a mouse, all we have is the dashed white line for company. and it looks ... Read more >
MOROCCO | Friday, 19 Feb 2010 | Views [657]
not wanting to do it the easy way, I opt for a solo adventure (no choice really, there is literally nobody else around), and take a digital photograph of a topographic map (circa 1960) plastered oh-too-conveniently on the wall. i find the mountains ... Read more >
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MOROCCO | Friday, 12 Feb 2010 | Views [460]
Reluctantly crouched at the taxi line Engines pumping and thumping, they whine The fruit shop closes, the Merc's fill up Churning and burning, they yearn for the top They barely maneuver and give way to rank Fuel burning fast on an empty tank Reckless ... Read more >
MOROCCO | Monday, 8 Feb 2010 | Views [646]
Fez is fantastically full of fortuitous findings. Stupified by tannery stenches and thrown into dizzied head-spins on the aroma of 45-spiced Fassi pigeon pie. Fez puts your senses in overdrive. Fez is a tingle down the spine as the call to prayer ... Read more >
MOROCCO | Monday, 8 Feb 2010 | Views [820]
Remember those Choose Your Own Advenutre books, where at the end of the chapter you reach a fork in the road and depending on whether you go left or right you end up on page 79 (in the mud) or page 132 (in the clouds)? Well, I just walked through ... Read more >
SPAIN | Tuesday, 19 Jan 2010 | Views [468]
watch your head as you pass through that arch. it was made for Spanish. and they are little people. havebloodwilltravel welcomes you once again to another semi-coherent voyage of random proportions. don't bother strapping yourselves in. you're bound ... Read more >
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