Just a quickie today. Liam and John kindly treated me to a curry at the Annapurna curry house at the tail end of the main street last night. We had to wait for a seat (any excuse to pop down to The Pub for a swift half) but it was worth it. Run and staffed [...]

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OK, that’s stretching it just a little. I met one Dane the other night and he was mad, perhaps almost enough to paint the entire country a bright shade of “bonkers”. Liam’s visiting with a friend of his. They’re very kindly paying for most of my beer and food while they’re here on the basis [...]

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One thing I’ve noticed with my recent credit card bill is how much more expensive everything is getting here. I am employed by a UK company and paid (a very small amount each month) in Pounds into a UK bank account. The thing is, since I got here the exchange rate against the Euro has [...]

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A little distant from where I am now, but following on from things that were happening when I visited last year. Bhutan has just begun its first set of democratic elections for the new constitutional monarchy. There seems to be a complete lack of mudslinging, a good attendance and effort being made by the government [...]

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Today I just waved off Viv from the airport before getting caught in a huge traffic jam on the way back into Chamonix. In fairness, it takes a metre of snowfall for people over here to start driving like snails that have lost their way home. Significantly better than the idiots in the UK who [...]

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Esther has posted up a blog entry about her and Antsje’s recent visit. I’m glad to say that she genuinely did seem to enjoy it and wasn’t pretending while she was here! Feel free to compare the diaries: Esther’s blog entry My blog entry

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This was so much one of "those" days, it made up for any amount of "not one of those days" that I may have had in the last month. In common parlance: ARGH. Sundays is airport transfer day. Things almost always go wrong, though usually only one or two small incidents per week. When you’re [...]

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Yes, folks. Two years since I left Blighty on that fateful day in 2006 and I’ve spent it in a somewhat different manner than last year’s anniversary. Then I was in Oz, piling on the kilometres from Sydney to Byron Bay. Today I was mainly sat in an office repairing my desktop PC that blew [...]

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OK, I will make at least one post a week from now on allowing for computer access. It’s been almost a fortnight since the last post and I am a bad, bad man for keeping you all hanging on tenterhooks. Not that I left a cliffhanger, but I know how you all miss me when [...]

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