UNITED KINGDOM | Thursday, 24 Jul 2008 | Views [662] | Comments [2]
I finally left Kathmandu on June 22 – although delays caused by the many blockades meant my bus made very slow progress. This wasn’t a particularly enjoyable bus journey, with even less room to move than usual, and whilst I was attempting to get some ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Thursday, 24 Jul 2008 | Views [613] | Comments [1]
I returned to the Kathmandu Guest House, where I spent the next four days dodging the leader of the Everest trek, who had rather irritatingly checked into the same hotel. The Kathmandu Guest House (KGH) is something of an institution in the Nepali ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Wednesday, 23 Jul 2008 | Views [437] | Comments [1]
Well I recovered from Lloyd’s purges and, after a couple of lovely days spent buying last minute souvenirs and hanging out with my lovely friends in McLeod, I left this wonderful town in which I had been based for almost four months, and embarked the ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Monday, 5 May 2008 | Views [512] | Comments [2]
The last couple of weeks have been fairly uneventful so I’m afraid this entry is rather less exciting than previous ones, though mercifully shorter… Perhaps the most interesting news is that after we left the march for McLeod, our fellow marchers remained ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Friday, 18 Apr 2008 | Views [570] | Comments [2]
Well hello again from a beautiful sunny McLeodganj, to which I returned from an amazing two weeks on the march on Monday. I must say that this little microcosm of Tibet with a hint of the west, buried in the Himalayan foothills, really feels like home ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Monday, 24 Mar 2008 | Views [862] | Comments [2]
Yesterday I attended a press conference with Nancy Pelosi, third in line for the American presidency, who was visiting the Dalai Lama here in sunny McLeodganj. As is always the way here, I only found out about it over dinner the previous night, ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Thursday, 20 Mar 2008 | Views [643] | Comments [1]
Hi everyone, Firstly – apologies for the strange format of the last installment. I’ve no idea why it did that, bloody computers have a mind of their own, so here’s hoping this one behaves! Thought I should get another installment in as tomorrow I set ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Friday, 22 Feb 2008 | Views [497]
Hello Punks! Hope you’re all well and looking forward to the next exciting installment of The Blog. Well, I’m still having a nice time here in sunny McLeodganj, and in spite of being India’s second wettest town, it HAS been sunny here for quite sometime, ... Read more >
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UNITED KINGDOM | Sunday, 10 Feb 2008 | Views [442] | Comments [1]
Well hello from a pleasantly sunny McLeodganj! What a time I've been having. Have been blighted by cold and pestilence since I last wrote, but have also hooked up with a bunch of fabulous likeminded internationals (most of whom are leaving over the ... Read more >
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UNITED KINGDOM | Friday, 25 Jan 2008 | Views [802] | Comments [5]
Well hello all, I hope all is well back home Well I have been in India for two weeks now and am more or less acclimatized. I’m delighted and surprised to report that as yet I have not succumbed to Delhi Belly, and have not seen any large spiders – although ... Read more >
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