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First five chapters of my book posted for reading on Autonomy

By Andy | Published: January 5, 2011
I went through my book again over Christmas.  Slowly it’s getting closer I think but I’m still really in need of finding objective readers and getting constructive feedback. This is my first attempt at writing a book and it’s probably been the single largest, but one of the most natural feeling, creative endeavours I have [...]
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Travelling back from Georgia for Christmas

By Andy | Published: January 22, 2010
I travelled back to the UK from Georgia by public transport to spend Christmas with my family. The journey was an adventure of it’s own. I took overland public transport instead of flying because of the environment impact of flying from carbon emissions. I also find flying quite boring and psychologically disagreeable especially after spending [...]
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A Two Month Storm

By Andy | Published: 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 [...]
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Delhi to Georgia

By Andy | Published: 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 [...]
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Writing etc

By Andy | Published: 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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