Turn up your air-conditioners, leave your lights on… all the time, throw away your new bicycle and drive to work. The world needs to urgently sit up and take note of the sloth-like speed at which the globe is warming. This is serious. We need to act now to urgently warm this planet up because it’s freezing in Mongolia. Read the rest of this entry »

These are some photos from the two weeks in Mongolia.

Gobi Goat Herders
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Ulaan Baatar, Friday 17 October

Snow. Coats. Hats. Steam. Heating. Soups. Stews. Mutton. Greatcoats. Fur hats. Boots with turned up toes. But stilletoes too! Yerts. Gers. Trucks. Dust in the desert. Tracks in the desert. No roadsigns. At all. Nothing, nil, nix. Just follow someone elses tyre marks and see where they go. Keep the Trans-Siberian Railway line to your left. Or your right. But do not lose sight of it. Read the rest of this entry »

Geez was I wrong about China… I realised this yesterday afternoon as I wandered aimlessly through the streets of Xian, roaming, exploring and getting hopelessly lost in this city’s ancient backstreets. I was determined not to pass the same shopfront twice and succeeded in my aim of quickly losing myself and any sense of direction. Read the rest of this entry »