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Blog 10: Georgia- a photo essay
In July this year, I spent ten days travelling across Georgia. It was my favourite kind of trip: I had a preordained start and finish...
Nov 20, 20234 min read
Blog 9: A Tale of Two Football Clubs
When I was last in Sarajevo in January, I wrote that I could not imagine a future where I did not come back. It would be disingenuous of...
Jun 14, 20237 min read
Blog 8: A Week in Assam
Monday Each day begins with tea. It’s hot and syrupy sweet, but to call it “hot, sweet tea” is to imply there’s any other kind: there...
Apr 10, 202311 min read
Blog 7: The dying of the light
A short walk from my room through an avenue of towering bamboo takes me out onto the vast mosaic paddy fields of the Brahmaputra river...
Mar 17, 20232 min read
Blog 6: Changes
“Hello sir, from where you are coming?” “I’m from New Zealand.” “Ahh niyuzeelaand! And when you are coming?” “I arrived a few weeks ago.”...
Feb 20, 20233 min read
Blog 5: A Passage to India
Well, it would seem the 'weekly' blog has come to its predictable (though gracious) demise. I will continue to write updates here, but...
Jan 26, 20234 min read
Blog 4: To the Balkans and back
I know they say comparison is the thief of joy, but I honestly can’t help myself sometimes and (just between you and me), I get a little...
Jan 9, 20233 min read
Blog 3: Twenty Twenty Three
Happy New Year! They say you should start your year as you intend to go on. Unfortunately, I’m not in the gym, or skydiving, or wandering...
Jan 2, 20232 min read
Blog 2: Paris for Christmas
I tried for a long time to come up with something original to say about Paris. This is of course hopeless. Everything original that could...
Dec 26, 20221 min read
Blog 1: Of Customs Officials and Book Club
Week 1 and already posting a day late! Inauspicious start. I never considered travelling to be something you needed to practice, like the...
Dec 19, 20224 min read
Blog 0: so long
As the poet and philosopher Post Malone once said, I'm no good at goodbyes. I've called this Blog 0, as my travels begin tomorrow,...
Dec 11, 20222 min read
Beginnings
3 December 2022 Canberra, Australia The goat sat on top of the hill. Of the innumerable pieces of wisdom my dad has handed down to me...
Dec 3, 20222 min read
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