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Tag Archives: lost

I am a complete Turkey

September 23, 2017by Alex 1 Comment

All of this to explain how I come to make a snap decision — a bad one — on the ferry between Rhodes and Marmaris.

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London, travel

Chopstuck

November 1, 2015by Alex Leave a comment

By now it’s dark and I’ve begun to imagine what my new life in a Chinese refugee camp will be like. Will I learn the language? Might I fall in love? Will I finally learn to cook rice?

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What does your yoga practice say about you?

July 7, 2014by Alex Leave a comment

Date: 8 July Location: One Hot Yoga, waiting for class with yogi-like patience (believable?) Notable sightings: friends galore. Dirty little secret: I don’t wash my yoga mat very often. I […]

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“Welcome to sky”

May 16, 2014by Alex Leave a comment

Date: 16 May Location: waiting for my turn to paraglide, the second highest peak above the Kathmandu Valley Notable sightings: the Himalayas We so like to snicker at all the […]

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travel

Respect Your Rhino

May 13, 2014by Alex 2 Comments

Date: 12 May Location: watching the sun go down over the jungle, Ghumtee Rivera Lodge, Chitwan National Park Notable sightings: one-horned rhinos! “And the bathroom situation…” This is Ravi, explaining […]

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Through the vortex and into the land of silence and smiles

May 11, 2014by Alex Leave a comment

Date: 11 May, Mothers' Day. Location: on the road again, between Lumbini and Chitwan, Nepal. Notable sightings: the most chilled immigration imaginable; peace in the birthplace of Buddha, Lumbini, Nepal. […]

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Out with the Kingfisher, in with the Everest

May 11, 2014by Alex 2 Comments

Date: 10 May Location: on the road trip from hell, somewhere between Varanasi and the Nepalese border. Notable sightings: urgh, too tired and hot to care. Hours driven: 9 Hours […]

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“The accumulation of time in walls”

April 27, 2014by Alex 3 Comments

Date: 27 April Location: seat 35A, Jet Airways flight from Trivandrum to Mumbai, en route to Delhi Notable sightings: Indian airplane food. Not as bad as you might think. (Effect: […]

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Mid-air thoughts, travel

The cast and crew: Team Southern India

April 17, 2014by Alex 1 Comment

Date: 15 April Location: the oldest colonial cafe in India, The Boulevard, Pondicherry Notable sightings: no zoo 😦 My goodness, I seem to be overly capable of getting myself into […]

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Subcontinental adrift

April 14, 2014by Alex 1 Comment

Date: 13 April, Palm Sunday / Tamil New Year's Eve Location: sunny rooftop, Pride Hotel, Chennai Notable sightings: my first rogue cow, stunning Dravidian architecture, slums and sidewalk sleepers Marriage […]

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You seem to like these ones best

  • Let’s float, lets glide
  • Scorpion tornados.
  • There it is before you, smiling, frowning, inviting, grand, mean, insipid, or savage, and always mute with an air of whispering, "Come and find out".
  • What intoxicating vanity
  • The Isle Is full Of Noises.

Thought for the week

"The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time." - George Bernard Shaw

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