Tag Archives: travel

Travelling back from Georgia for Christmas January 22, 2010

I travelled back to the UK from Georgia at Christmas to spend it with my family by public transport and it was an adventure of it’s own. I wanted to take public transport to avoid the general boredom, financial and emissions cost of taking a plane.
The bus from Tbilisi to Thessalonika was a long [...]

A Two Month Storm July 13, 2009

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 [...]

Delhi to Georgia May 11, 2009

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 [...]

Writing etc April 20, 2009

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 [...]

 
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