Daily Archives: November 22, 2009
Making history
They say that history is written by the victors. Well if so, Vietnam has a weird way of sounding their victory. It’s now 34 years after a win that many thought was impossible in the face of America’s superior strength … Continue reading
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“I’m an alien. I’m a legal alien.” – Sting, Englishman in New York Periodically the travel press comes up with another statistic that makes one ashamed to be an Englishperson abroad. 97% of all Greeks think that Brits are immoral, … Continue reading
The Prisoners
When I was growing up, the hallway outside my bedroom at my dad’s house was dominated by a massive poster of Patrick McGoohan as Number 6 in The Prisoner with the adage in half-foot-high letters: “I am not a number, … Continue reading
Snobbery and the Mekong Delta
There are people who travel and there are tourists. The debate of which category a person falls into – dependant on travelling behaviour, length of journey, lifestyle choices – is a long one that has been raging among backpacking communities … Continue reading
