Airline food I hope I do get

Continental BusinessFirst Dinner Snack Originally uploaded by Danburg Murmur. These pictures blogged from the excellent Flickr, taken by a man who is documenting all of the food he gets on planes. Not a bad idea!

Lovely kit

Lifeventure equipment is lovely stuff. I have no idea if it is actually used by ‘proper’ travellers (whoever they are, I’ve not met any yet), but it has the appearance of the equipment of choice for the hardened traveller. You have no idea what I’m on about. It’s fine. Everything is blue, everything comes in …

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Happy new year!

Things are looking up, I’m starting to feel nervous excitement, it’s a new year! 26 days to go! Cookie and Jo have a baby girl, Charlotte, and I got to tell Cookie he wasn’t going to get a good night’s sleep for at least the next eleven years, har har har. He says he’s not …

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Explanations

How can religious people explain something like this? asks Martin Kettle in the Guardian. How can a God exist that can allow such things to happen? Over the coming days, it will doubtless be revealed that many thousands more have died as a result of the Asian tsunami – after the flood waters have subsided, …

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Earthquake

The devastation around the Indian ocean in the wake of the earthquake earlier today looks to be massive – affecting, amongst other places, Tamil Nadu, one of my first stops on the trip, which starts next month. I’ve e-mailed a friend who’s volunteering in India at the moment based in Chennai – she was heading …

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