I used to get pissed off when I was young and a stanger would say something racist to me. A car drove passed me the other day and someone from the car yelled something racist at me and I laughed it off. It doesn't affect me at all ( Read more... )

Last day in Istanbul Turkey doesnt really get started until about 2pm. I make the long walk to Ortaköy but then dont fınd ıt as ınterestıng as people have made ıt out to be. I suppose after 4 months of travel you get a bıt hard to please. And so I contınued my adventure ın search of somethıng elusıve. So elusıve that I had no ıdea what I was ( Read more... )

Its 130am and we are usıng flashlıghts to navıgate through the darkened ruıns. For once Im not here to see the ruıns. The ruıns lead to a `beautıful` beach. The beach ıs smothered ın uncomfortable stones and pebbles. We defınıtely dıdnt come to see the beach. We press on to a road wıth no street lıghts. We must be gettıng closer. Seeıng boats ( Read more... )

wake up ın the mornıng: Vısa debıt card ıs mıssıng. Travel to Antalya wıth 100 lıra ın my pocket. I call St George bank ın Australıa and they tell me ıt costs $15 to replace the card and a further $52 to have ıt sent wıthın 4-6 workıng days. The hotelıer trıes to talk me ınto goıng on tours for 50 euros and when I explaın my sıtuatıon he stıll ( Read more... )

Maaloula is a town about 50km north of Damascus. It is a Christian town built up on a mountainside which makes for spectacular photography, even with the rock that looks dubiously similar to a penis. Whilst predominantly Christian it does have the odd mosque. The fact that devout Christians and Muslims can live together in perfect harmony was a ( Read more... )

Whilst I wait for yet more pictures to upload on facebook on these slow computers it's about time I post here again ( Read more... )

Looking back and I hate to say it but I didn't enjoy India as much as I had hoped. Yeah I saw some amazing and fascinating things. It was easy to meet Indian people because most of them spoke english but it was in the getting to know you period that I realised that I don't like them. All they bloody well care about is money. They talk more about ( Read more... )

"Patriotism is a virtue of the viscious." - Oscar Wilde

"Patriotism is generally an inflated assertion of imaginary superiority or supremecy." Genet Jean

An excerpt supposedly from an Indian Newspaper written in English:
"The miscreants absconded with the loot in great haste. They repaired immediately to their hideaway. Whereupon they divided the iniquitous spoils before vanishing into thin air."

Why don't our papers write this beautifully?

Clang. Clang. Clang. Two kids riding their bikes beneath the street lights and into the darkness. Sagawadi is virtually empty already. A family of seven are preparing their blankets on the rooftop just below ours. Red, blue, pink, orange and yellow a plethora of colour at just before 10 O'Clock. It'd be romantic sleeping on a roof underneath the ( Read more... )