India
“I hated India … some of the time” “You will love it and you will hate it” Before arriving in India, I spoke to a few friends who’d ridden there […]
Countries
Singapore and Malaysia
Singapore: the furthest tip of Eurasia, where the world’s largest landmass gives way to Indonesian islands and you have to get your feet wet for the first time since Norway. […]
Thailand
Thailand has the world’s second most dangerous roads. I was in blissful ignorance when I cruised the border, a but someone soon told me of the country’s dark truth. Compared […]
Cambodia
It’s a holiday in Cambodia, it’s tough kid but it’s life. It’s a holiday in Cambodia, don’t forget to pack a wife. So sang the Dead Kennedys in 1978, when […]
China
I should probably be careful what I write: in the future when the Chinese rule the world, anything I say may be used in evidence against me. So with a […]
Laos
It was a dusty border crossing – the newest gate on this frontier, and as far as anyone could tell, the least used. The visa clerk, who had been called […]
Vietnam
It’s very easy to judge a country before you get there, and for Vietnam there are no prizes for guessing what I thought. Try playing James Bond’s word association game: […]
Japan
The airport guard was trying to tell me somthing and he looked rather agitated, his hands whirling in some cross-linguistic mime. I thought I understood his message but I definitely […]
South Korea
On the plane to Hong Kong I chose a South Korean spy film as the in-flight movie. It was about a Southern spy who befriended his target in the […]
Canada and Alaska
The North. My trip so far had passed through familiar ground: the trip down memory lane on the European prologue, the prairies and dustbowls of the southern US, the well-used […]