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The plane from Bangkok landed at Kathmandu international airport in the late morning and my connecting internal flight to Pokhara wasn’t till 2pm. So I had plenty of time to walk the several hundred metres to the domestic terminal…. Hang on a minute

Most Recent Entry: Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Malaysia

WELCOME TO THE INTERNATIONAL PARAGLIDING CARNIVAL 2009, BAHAU Getting off the bus at the main carnival landing site I was greeted by the intriguing looks of school kids at the bus stop. This wasn’t a surprise as the carnival site was the local s

Most Recent Entry: Thursday, August 13, 2009

Indonesia

Out of the hotel early and straight onto the bus! Two hours later I was somewhere in the large city of Medan. The coolness of the Karo Highlands had been replaced by the heat of the lowlands and no matter how nice (?) the street comer was I needed

Most Recent Entry: Monday, July 06, 2009

Paragliding places

Pokhara: Probably the most consistent flying site in the world for paragliding. Take off Sarangkot: a 20 minute taxi ride from lakeside Landing In the lake or one of the several landing sites along it Time of year to fly September

Most Recent Entry: Saturday, June 13, 2009

Thailand

Before I gave the scooter back I decided to have one last blast on the road. But where to go? The answer, for once, came from the guide book. About 100km away was Doi Inthanon, the highest point in Thailand shooting up to just over 2500 metres

Most Recent Entry: Saturday, May 02, 2009

Nepal

The countdown has started. After six and a half months (even I can’t believe it’s been this long) it is getting near the time to depart. Today I moved out of the apartment that I have been calling home for half a year and into a cheap hotel. Well it

Most Recent Entry: Thursday, March 26, 2009

India

Tuesday: Arriving at midday I had already decided on a hotel and was thus able to ignore the touts. Whilst having “the fag” outside the train station a head strong bull found its way to the bin blocked by my bags and me. Needless to say, I got o

Most Recent Entry: Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Iran

Friday 18th of April The airplane rumbled across the tarmac of Tehran’s international airport runway 20 minutes ahead of schedule. So it was only 02:10 in the morning then! Going through passport control took awhile but not as long as the luggage...

Most Recent Entry: Saturday, May 03, 2008

Turkey

Due to the changes in my travel plans, I had decided to hang out somewhere in Turkey for a whole week before flying back to London. The small village of Goreme fitted the bill very nicely thank you. It’s in the middle of Cappadocia. Only a 12 hour b...

Most Recent Entry: Friday, March 28, 2008

Greece

As ı left santorini on the ferry to Paros to meet up wıth my family it came to my attention that the last time i had a family holiday i was 12 years old! Still, worse things happen at sea... When i got to paros i had a 11km ride over the hills to the t...

Most Recent Entry: Thursday, October 11, 2007

Italy

After looking at the map i decided to go along the coast. Not much chance of coming across any mountains. The roads were flat (mostly) and due to the fact that it is the height of the Italian summer holiday season most of the campsites were full or nea...

Most Recent Entry: Tuesday, August 28, 2007

And so it begins

On the road to the Cul du pas de peyrol: from Salers to Murat. the day started well, woke up to blue sky. the first time in six days. As the distance to Murat was only 42km's i had a late start and was on the road at about 9am. Usually i like to tak...