Turkish delight
Faith in mankind restored
Anyone who has been to Turkey will know that any tourist walking through the street is likely to be befriended at some point by someone selling rugs, or killens as they’re called in Turkey, and this particular evening was no different for me in Antalya, on the Turkish Mediterranean coast. By now I had become […]
Mexican bandits!
Guns, girls and drugs
Ok, pour yourself a nice drink and get comfy, this is a long one…. but a good one! I’ve been in Mexico for about a month and I’m on a night bus from Mexico City heading south towards the Guatemalan border and have decided to make a small, dusty town on the way there a […]
Penniless and stuck on Flores
Bad planning and plain stupidity
I’m on the Indonesian island of Bali and about to say goodbye to my dear, old friend Anna who I’ve been travelling with for a few months through Nepal, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia. She’s about to fly to Australia to continue her adventure, while I on the other hand have taken out a stack of […]
Near Death Event No.2 – Bali drowning
Busty blondes, booze and rip tides - a disaster waiting to happen
I’m on the Indonesian party island of Bali, having just come back from a few days island hopping to the east. It’s nice to be back in the relative comfort of Bali, which to me at the moment seems like New York compared to the very remote towns and villages I’ve just come back […]
Near Death Event No.1 – Kashmir bomb
Listen to the locals!
I’m at the end of my one month tour of northern India and as it’s going so well that I’ve decided to finish the trip off with a short visit to the beautiful and relatively unexplored far north of India called Kashmir. In particular I’m hoping to see the wonderful, old houseboats on the Dal […]