This is the first post in a while to the Ride Earth blog because I’ve not been cycle touring recently.
I returned via Public transport back from France to Tbilisi at the end of the summer. I met Tom in Venice and we spent a long and strange evening sleeping on a bench drinking wine with [...]
I wanted to write something more about my experience in Iran. At the time I didn’t write much on the blog. But I did write a lot in my diary which will appear in a book in the future.
Some experiences stay in my mind in particular. They started at Agarak, the Armenian-Iranian border. I remember [...]
By Andy
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Also posted in Expedition Journal, Iran
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Tagged bam, Couchsurfing, culture, Cycling, desert, history, Iran, isfahan, kerman, memories, Philosophy, south iran, yazd
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I’m now 55,000 words into my book’s first draft and I’ve learnt a few things which I thought I’d share:
Get up early in the morning to write. e.g. 6 am. I tried writing late at night and got into a counter-productive routine of falling asleep at 10.30 pm, waking up at 2 am and working [...]
After leaving the Iran embassy having been rejected for the visa a second time, I cycled over to the travel agency, and booked a flight to Istanbul. Flying is not the best transport for me because I feel that it cuts out the point of travel which is the adventure of meeting people and having [...]
By Andy
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Also posted in Expedition Journal, India
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Tagged Adventure, bombs, Challenge, China, flying, Georgia, India, istanbul, monks, Pakistan, Police, Tbilisi, terrorism, Tibet, travel
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I’ve been working a lot on creative stuff recently. My profession is in the field of web design. I’ve been posting artwork onto the Ride Earth flickr photo album, and other creative nuggets of inspiration and perhaps they don’t belong there.
I heard about a public-driven journalism website from a friend, http://www.citizenside.com and I uploaded some photos I took of the ‘cells’ that appeared all over the main street, Rustaveli, Freedom Square and around the Parliament building yesterday morning.
These metal framed cuboids covered in plastic sheeting are housing protesters claiming the president Saakashvili has been wrongly [...]
Being in a new location, and having hatched new plans I’m finding myself at that stage of tilling the ground and sowing the seeds to hopefully grow into burgeoning new projects.
By Andy
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Also posted in Constructive Ranting
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Tagged Friends, Georgia, group, mentality, networking, ngo, Philosophy, Photography, projects, psychology, Tbilisi, Volunteering, writing
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Writing is going ok. It’s new territory and a new challenge and I’m enjoying it.I have written about a previous adventure before- a mountain bike ride from Inverness to Fort William in May 2006. You can read that account in the earlier blog archives. I feel that my writing then was particularly stylised to appeal [...]
So, I’m hanging up the panniers for a while and I’m living in a flat with Fanny in Tbilisi.
I decided to write up my journals into a book which will cover my journey from England to India and Nepal.
I arrived back in Tbilisi in Georgia just in time to witness a demonstration in a similar mould to the one Tom and I witnessed when we arrived for the first time back in January 2008.
50,000 people gathered on the main street, Rustaveli, outside the front of the parliament building. There is a large stage [...]
“Build it up, tear it down”
“A period of expansion, and a period of consolidation”
By Andy
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Also posted in Constructive Ranting, Expedition Journal
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Tagged Art, audio, Communication, creative, Georgia, money, Photography, Tbilisi, video, website, Work
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This morning I have been digging through the news about Georgia to find some articles which are closer to what I consider to be closer to the truth.
Typing ‘real news’ into Google I came across a news website which is member supported and do not accept advertising, government or corporate funding. We don’t know who [...]
Today Georgia declared a state of war with Russia. Luckily I’d left on the 26th of July to come home to England to surprise my family. I travelled by bus and train. I’m planning to start to travel back towards Georgia on Monday. I hope that by the time I intend to get back to [...]
I have recently designed a website for a new building in Tbilisi. It is the first Class A+ building, designed by a German architects Wandel Hoefer Lorch. It is an impressive looking structure with a glass fascade which stands out amongst traditional Tbilisi buildings.
The special thing about the building is that it is one of [...]
Last night I went to teach my English speaking lesson at the ‘Georgian-Scottish-House’ in Tbilisi. Recently I have had another gear-change with regards to my thinking on how I can do my bit to help reduce the now widely accepted human-induced climate change that is happening.
A main aim of Ride Earth is to observe and [...]
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