Archive for: August 2008

I’m pretty disappointed with Jim Morrison’s grave.
The train ride to the cemetery, on the Paris `Metro’ transit system, is pretty disappointing, the entrance to the cemetery is pretty disappointing, the route to the grave is pretty disappointing and the grave …

Ex-army backpacking equipment has an air of reliability about it - if an army depended on it it must be reliable.
This attitude conveniently ignores the fact that armies are sometimes defeated, whether they have reliable equipment or not.
I mean, who …

When I was backpacking around the World War 1 battle scenes a strange thing happened, I started to compare the time it took me to travel a certain distance with the time it took the soldiers in WW1 to travel …

Just about everybody in Turkey seems to be enthusiastic about Ataturk, and after a while you start to get enthusiastic about him too - at least I did
But the question is, was this really enthusiasm? Or was it just a …