In light of a number of people requesting to buy my photos I’m selling them here: http://www.redbubble.com/people/andrewwelch.
Some things that we can do in life make us feel more alive than others
These activities are things that make me feel alive:
By Andy
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Posted in Constructive Ranting, Mountain Biking, Run-up Diary
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Also tagged Art, Cycling, Dancing, Eating, feel alive, Inspiration, Life, Motivation, ranting, self-development, skiing
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Long time since I wrote, I know. In fact I’ve been spending a lot of time in front of a computer. I’ve been writing every morning and now have written 95000 words of my book. I met one of my sister’s friends a couple of days ago who has just finished writing a book she [...]
By Andy
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Posted in Climate Change, England, Europe, France, Georgia, Mountain Biking, Switzerland, Turkey, writing
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Also tagged 4HWW, andrew welch, biking, boat, CENN, Climate Change, creativity, critiscism, Cycling, Dancing, dave allen, demonstrations, design, effectiveness, England, Environment, folklore, freedom square, Georgia, georgian, georiders, greece, GTD, Motivation, Mountain Biking, ngo, parliament, portfolio, public transport, rustaveli, saakashvili, saburtalo, swimming, Tbilisi, Timoty ferriss, travel, Turkey, uk, Websites, writing
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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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Posted in Constructive Ranting, Georgia
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Also tagged Friends, Georgia, group, mentality, networking, ngo, Philosophy, 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 [...]
“Build it up, tear it down”
“A period of expansion, and a period of consolidation”
By Andy
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Posted in Constructive Ranting, Expedition Journal, Georgia
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Also tagged Art, audio, Communication, creative, Georgia, money, Tbilisi, video, website, Work
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I arrived last night in the capital of Nepal, Kathmandu. The country holds great intrigue for me and my initial impressions do not disappoint.
Kathmandu is a relaxed and historical place which, I get the inkling, has a great deal to offer for those who are willing to hang about and dig deeper below the surface [...]
By Andy
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Posted in Nepal
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Also tagged Borders, Buddhism, Bus, Chay, Cities, Clothes, Crafts, Cycling, Enlightenment, Extrawheel, Filming, Foam, Food, Gaffer Tape, Getting Lost, Happiness, Historical, Improvisation, India, Internet Cafe, Intrigue, Kathmandu, Lethargy, Mental State, Negativity, Nepal, Pedalling, Physical State, Relaxed, Risk, Silence, Stomach Bug, Street Food, Trekking
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I was taking photos of a beautiful sunset after a long day’s ride when I chanced upon a couple of Hindu nuns who were standing outside their school / orphanage.
By Andy
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Posted in Expedition Journal, India
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Also tagged Ashram, Bike Shop, Buffalo, Children, Cycling, Dharma, Donating a bike, English, Hinduism, Meditation, Motivation, Orphanage, School, Self-sufficiency, Students, Suburbs, Sunset, Temples, Varanasi, Volunteering, Wheels4Life
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Headspin January 17, 2009
Macho, ego says: ‘what if you regret not continuing East?’
My heart says: ‘Go back to Georgia and then see what happens’
My realistic head says how? -
3 onward travel options:
1. Nepal, Tibet, China
2. Pakistan, Central Asia
3. Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, Georgia
1. = Expensive, painful…
2. = Waiting until May to cross KHH and a whole bunch of [...]
By Andy
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Posted in Expedition Journal
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Also tagged Central Asia, China, Continuing East, Different Route, Ego, Expensive, Filming, Georgia, Going Back, Hysteria, India, Intrigue, Iran, KKH, Lateral Thinking, Macho, Nepal, Onward Travel, Painful, Pakistan, Paranoia, Reversal, Sensible, Tibet, Turkey, Visas, Waiting
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I was in an internet cafe this morning, feeling crappy and depressed. I woke up this morning with a head full of heavy thoughts about my future travel plans, feeling worried.
I connected my hard disk to the computer and as what often happens I spent a good hour wrangling with it to try and view files. [...]
By Andy
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Posted in Expedition Journal, India
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Also tagged Computer, Depressed, Don't Store Your Life on A Disk Drive, Future Travel Plans, Hard Disk, Heavy Thoughts, Internet Cafe, Malicious Computers, Music, Salvage, Strenght, Worried
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I feel a bit like I haven’t been telling the full story through the blog in terms of what’s been going on. This is mainly because I’ve had to do everything from internet cafes and time and expense are a factor.
December involved a decision to get off the main highway and spend some time exploring [...]
By Andy
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Posted in Expedition Journal, India, Scotland
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Also tagged Agriculture, Banana Plantations, Bharoch, Cycling, Expense, Get Off the Highway, Hinduism, Internet Cafe, Pedalling, Pollution, Religion, Rest, Time, Towns, Villages, Wild Camping
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I just had a thought whilst uploading photos to Flickr. None of them exist in a physical form. I’m getting high on my own pictures. I think some of them are good but then I would wouldn’t I.
By Andy
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Posted in Constructive Ranting, Expedition Journal, India
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Also tagged Action, Beach, Body, Brochure, Carelessness, Coastal Development, Digital, Expression, Flickr, Getting High, Getting Lost, Goa, Government, Holiday, Karnataka, Local People, Marketing, Paradise, Philosophy, Physical, Practical Information, Reversal, Sand, Sand Castle, Sea, Thoughtlessness, Time, Toes, Tomato Sauce, Too Much Information, Tourism, Water, White Men, Work
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