You can actually fly to Mandalay from Yangon for about $75US, so the romance of the […]
1. Burmese script initially reminded me of the patterns woodbugs make when tunnelling into a two-by-four, […]
Obviously no one briefed the censors that I was coming. This site is one of the […]
Last night around 10, my immune system decided it felt like inviting a cold around for […]
Also in this series: Death By Exposure and Despo(t) 2010: The Axis of Awesome […]
Also in this series: Death By Exposure and Stan! We went back to Expo […]
Also in this series: Despot 2010: Axis of Awesome and Stan! After we spent […]
We had gone to Qiandao Lake, about three hours by car from Shanghai, for a weekend […]
The road ended at the edge of a crumbling cliff, after a series of abrupt structural […]
The hills are so famous that they are on the 20rmb note. Looking closely at […]
In Tahrir Midan, the Picadilly of central Cairo’s circuses, after a long, hot, dusty day […]
We will start with Mohammed Ali and the perfumists of Cairo. We wandered down the […]