India
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Sunday, 4 Feb 2007 | Views [872]
[written ages ago but only just released from draft] Tired of lying in the sunshine
-- ("Time" / Pink Floyd)
I've had my April 1st entry sketched out for half a year. It was to be
called "Adventures in Fiction"... Read more >
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Thursday, 1 Feb 2007 | Views [1588]
You miss things on a first look. Sometimes you miss a lot.
In
Pokhara, for instance, I arrived in the mid-afternoon, headed over to
North Lakeside to find a room, and then took a wander. It was pretty
enough, with sun on the lake, and clouds ... Read more >
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Friday, 26 Jan 2007 | Views [1723] | Comments [1]
Carom Carom is a cross
between pool and air hockey played with a square wooden board and some
discs. The object is to flick the game disc at a disc of your own
colour and knock it into a corner hole. The board is coated with a
layer of chalk, ... Read more >
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Monday, 22 Jan 2007 | Views [1809]
I first saw Nepali trucks (which share their style with Indian trucks) at the border town of Zhang
Mu. Chinese trucks were drab and staid. A typical Nepali truck is
bright and decorated to the point of garishness. Its body is painted a
brownish ... Read more >
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Saturday, 20 Jan 2007 | Views [1799]
It was the nearest hotel to Pokhara's Camping Chowk and the price was
too low, but I took the room anyway. If I was to return to Kathmandu
the next day, having just returned from trekking, it seemed silly to
lug luggage all the way to Lakeside North, ... Read more >
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Saturday, 30 Dec 2006 | Views [1016]
That he was on holiday did not stop the UK electrical engineer from
burbling enthusiatically on the dangers of electricity; the Australian
sparky he was conversing at was less effusive. Their group and mine
were sharing a bus back from the Mekong ... Read more >
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Monday, 25 Dec 2006 | Views [1871] | Comments [2]
When the British colonised Australia, their culture and agriculture were imposed on a country that was in many cases unsuited for it. Seasons were six months out of phase, and the soil, climate, and weather patterns were so different, that by the ... Read more >
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