The place we’re staying in Jambiani is one of those that looks really good on Airbnb, and has all that is advertised, but is just dinghier, darker and has other defects that are hard to identify without seeing the place. One is that our rooms are set up so that air circulation is quite blocked […]
Stand on Zanzibar
Which is where I am, and it’s been a very long time indeed since I posted anything other than a frontpagefury and even those, I must admit, were stored up and posted in a couple of highly delayed batches. So here we are on the island of Zanzibar, with its dhows and fierce white light […]
Fury at the government
The Scotsman, 6 Deember 2021
Ever more science fictional
The world grows increasingly like something dreamt up in an sf script for TV. Now this omicron variant. Is thie the one that’s going to kill us all? Or at least interrupt my the GF’s travel plans, granted hardly the biggest baddest disaster that could befall us, leave alone the world.
A blank
Today has been a blank. Not sure what happened. A bit of work? Oh of course. I had my first meeting with a new client, based in Belize so quite far away. It will be interesting to see how it goes – I quite liked the people I’ll be working with. The company’s owner was […]
Mardan
Yesterday, the driver arrived at around 10. We’d planned to go to Taxila, see some sights, return, but one of our hosts proposed a different plan which I immediately leapt at. This was to go to Mardan, about 2 hours from Islamabad, there to visit the remains of a Gandharan Buddhist monastery at Takht-e-Bahi, and […]
Luxury travel
We took the Q-Connect bus to Islamabad. This is a new development since my last visit, a fleet (numbering 2) of ultra-luxury buses going between Lahore and Islamabad twice a day and costing twice our old friend the Daewoo. Everyone assured us that it was the height of luxury, very comfortable, or so they had […]
Inauspicious start
While I finished my work and meetings before leaving, it was still an inauspicious start as I got in the taxi, was promptly stuck in Beyoglu traffic jams, idly looked at the ticket on my phone, and realised that it said Ataturk Airport, ie the old airport, not the new Istanbul Airport to which I […]
Fury at the airport
Sunday People, 25 July 2021
Tombs of Dalyan
Today we came to Dalyan. It was a long and hot taxi ride, with few points of interest other than some marbles quarries. There was, occasionally, fine landscape, and at the point at which you break through the hills to the coastal plain there was a stopping point by the road which was also a […]