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A Call to Arms
Wednesday, October 19th, 2011 | Uncategorized | 2 Comments
“The true measure of a nation’s standing is how well it attends to its children – their health and safety, their material security, their education and socialization, and their sense of being loved, valued, and included in the families and societies into which they are born.”
UNICEF, Child poverty in perspective: An overview of child well-being in rich countries,
Innocenti Report Card 7, 2007
UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, Florence (more…)
These Are ‘The Good Old Days’
Sunday, August 28th, 2011 | South East Asia | 2 Comments
On beginning a blog about long distance bicycle travel, I swore to myself that I would never write about the negativity, the hardships, the whining and the gripes of hard times. Only to share the good times, to enthuse and show what a great place this world can be once you step out of your comfort zone. Many world cycling websites will tell you about how incredible cyclists are to overcome such monumental physical and mental obstacles, the durations, the altitudes, the distances, the countries, the punctures, the extremes; statistics. I am not interested in that. If you want to know how big my dick is, take a look in my pants, I’m not going to tell you all about it. (more…)
Xin Chau, Again, Sabaidee, Again…
Sunday, August 21st, 2011 | South East Asia | 4 Comments
Phonsavanh, a small provincial capital in Northern Laos of ugly cement buildings congregated on the intersection of two ‘main’ roads. Cafe’s, guest houses and motorbike mechanics line street fronts, scattered with large disarmed bombshells, recovered and defused from the surrounding fields. I had overcome difficult elitist and egocentric ideals in taking a flight from Kolkata to Bangkok, continued to cycle through Cambodia, and Vietnam to where I now sit on a firm single bed in a dim room, sheltering from the torrential monsoon downpour outside. (more…)
Our Dried Up Sex Life
Sunday, August 21st, 2011 | South East Asia | 1 Comment
We have been in this relationship for fourteen months now, you and I. I attracted you over cups of tea and imaginings of the places I could take you. I shared with you my aspirations and dreams from my humble home in a small city in central England. I took you with me as I began to live these dreams, we began to see the world. We made love frequently and passionately through Europe, in new places, new positions, I wanted you to know my every new emotion and for you to truly experience how I was feeling, my heart offered to you through my discourse, our intercourse. Lessons about myself learnt through the Middle East were offered honestly with fervour and through Central Asia as we truly became a lived in relationship, I tried to spice things up with new flavours and ideas as (more…)
High Times
Monday, March 7th, 2011 | Asia | No Comments
A mountainous image before mountains themselves appear; Dolly stood in the marble hotel foyer piled high with the winter equipment that for weeks had been waited for. Boots, thermal clothing, arctic sleeping bags, food for a week, flasks, a fine exhibit of dried fruit and nuts. Sleepless nights put behind me. Fears of fatal and authoritarian consequences of the action I was about to take. Wheels slid down the ramped hotel exit in the snowy Kashgar afternoon as electric scooters whizzed past alongside donkeys and carts. Time to leave behind urban juxtapositions for the wild. Steel tubes flexed under the weight and strain of traffic jam swerves, wheels turned again. (more…)
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