The Morning After
“You realise – or you would do if you hadn’t stayed out till 4am getting sozzed,” says Zac over breakfast. “That if we don’t get...
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Mountain Madness
Readers of a sensitive disposition might want to skip this post. How about reading the first post I ever wrote instead, or this lovely one...
Stuck in Lukla
As we amble from Phakding to Lukla – a walk that took us three hours coming down but half that going up, a measure of...
Mountain Goggles
Everest Base Camp the Lazy Way Day 15-16 – Gorak Shep to Pheriche When I awake, it feels that winter has really hit. Fat, soft...
Yep, Definitely Time To Leave This Town
This post is REALLY family-unfriendly. The next one will be perfectly fragrant, I promise, but in the interim here’s a post on the life lessons...
Dear Reader, I Am Extremely Out of Practice
A spectacularly family-unfriendly post, I’m afraid, dear readers: here’s one on a Chinese supermarket and another on a very bad road in Indonesia. Younger readers,...
Coming to Terms with Facial Scarring in Beirut
Even by my standards, this post is not very family-friendly. You might want to try this one instead. Younger readers: this is going to be...
I F*cking Love Beirut
As a child of the 70s, who grew up in the 80s, Beirut has all the magical allure of the forbidden that China did. And,...
Family Values
As a trio, H, Z and I cause no little confusion to the good and tolerant folk of Laos, where we’re exploring en route to...
What Does An 80p Whisky Taste Like?
This is Tiger Whisky, Laos’ finest intoxicant. Or, as the label has it, “Finest blended SUPER Tiger Whisky Smooth and Mellon” [sic]. And who wouldn’t...