I am surrounded by small re-sealable bags containing anti-malarials, three different kinds of painkiller, big pills to give me much-needed vitamins, small pills to bung me up, and more small pills to unbung me. A Chinese lad in school had less pills than this and we mercilessly took the piss out of him for being a [...]

I have in the past bemoaned the way that the UK has become very, well, safe. Ambulance-chasing lawyers have seen this nation become nearly as litigious as the US, with everything from health and safety legislation to ultra-cushioned adventure playground surfaces meaning that it is extraordinarily difficult to do yourself a mischief. Stupid people have to go to [...]

I’m jealous of some of the beautiful travel blogs and websites I’ve seen around the place, which make mine look feeble in comparison. I’m thinking mainly of Phileas Blog, but also Palin’s Travels, The Man in Seat 61, and Tales of Asia. I set up a Buffer