About a week ago, the speed skating season came to an end with the world allround championships in Heerenveen. Josh Lose skated in those championships and didn’t skate particularly well, owing to being slightly ill. Despite performing poorly in the regional qualifier, and believing himself to have not qualified, he got a call three...
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København The anti-climax to rival all anti-climaxes occurred late on Friday, December 18th 2009. One of the great opportunities for the world to come together and address the urgent problems brought about by man-made climate change, and to take decisive steps towards mitigating it was squandered in dramatic fashion which ended in Barack Obama...
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I weathered the storm of the previous year and in some good company I was here found to welcome January without a fear My feet finally returned to solid ground from abstract worlds to which my maths had taken me aloft and in many equations drowned Relaxed anew, my mind it hath awakened and...
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This one one of a series of travel emails I sent to friends and family who wished to follow my travels through Latin America in the first half of 2007 “Do you want a bigger pole?” “Uh, yes… thanks” “Ideally, you want it to come up to about hip-height” “Actually, I’d like mine to...
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This one one of a series of travel emails I sent to friends and family who wished to follow my travels through Latin America in the first half of 2007 Nothing really prepares you for the Iguazu falls. They’re big. Very big. They are the second most voluminous waterfalls in the world after Victoria...
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This one one of a series of travel emails I sent to friends and family who wished to follow my travels through Latin America in the first half of 2007 Climate change. Those two words seem to be the words-of-the-moment at the moment. But what I’m talking about isn’t the climate change that almost-president...
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This one one of a series of travel emails I sent to friends and family who wished to follow my travels through Latin America in the first half of 2007 “So you´re from the other side of the dutch?” What in the world… oh, New Zealand! It all clicked – he was referring to...
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This one one of a series of travel emails I sent to friends and family who wished to follow my travels through Latin America in the first half of 2007 We stepped carefully on the smooth slippery stones, being sure to ensure that each stone was not loose before committing our full bodyweight to...
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This one one of a series of travel emails I sent to friends and family who wished to follow my travels through Latin America in the first half of 2007 The window was a dirty dark porthole to the hot humid air above the Caribbean Sea. It had not been cleaned for some time...
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