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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 [...]

By Andy | Posted in Asia, Europe, Expedition Journal, India | Also tagged boat, Bus, Christmas, England, Europe, family, Georgia, georgians, public transport, Train | Comments

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 [...]

By Andy | Posted in Climate Change, England, Europe, France, Georgia, Mountain Biking, Switzerland, Turkey, writing | 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, Photography, portfolio, public transport, rustaveli, saakashvili, saburtalo, swimming, Tbilisi, Timoty ferriss, Turkey, uk, Websites, writing | Comments

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 [...]

By Andy | Posted in Expedition Journal, Georgia, India | Also tagged Adventure, bombs, Challenge, China, flying, Georgia, India, istanbul, monks, Pakistan, Police, Tbilisi, terrorism, Tibet | Comments

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 [...]