Booked it!

Give it a woo, and a yay, and a seriously loud COME ON!! I’ve bought my ticket! The itinerary is this: London to Mumbai Mumbai overland to Delhi (while in India I’ll be volunteering with Aidcamps, seeing Rach in Chennai, and checking out Kerala, Goa, Agra and Varanasi) Delhi to Hong Kong (from here I’ll …

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Four weeks to go…

There’s four weeks to go at LU now – not long given that I’m only there for three days a week. After such a long time of feeling stressed out and bogged down by the job, I’m finally enjoying myself again – partly because the end is in sight. It’s nice to think that, for …

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Music and curiosities

This is a fantastic place to go for MP3 downloads – one of many MP3 sites I’m discovering on the web… This is also an interesting toy to play with, presenting any web site’s Google results along with the sites that link to it in a kind of map arrangement…

Reasons to be cheerful… 1,2,3

I just like that as a subject so I thought I’d use it – it’s the name of a good Ian Dury song, which was almost like a rap in that it was a long list of reasons why you should be cheerful – maybe just if you’re Ian Dury, it is all subjective after …

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Reasons for going travelling

Why am I going away? This is a good question. Do I need to have a good reason to leave behind responsibility, family and friends for anything up to a year? I’ve been thinking about exactly why it is that I’m going away. I have a load of reasons, I think. I was concerned about …

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It’s all change…

This is my second go at a blog – I gave up on the last one as it was mind-numbingly dull. Not that mind-numbing dullness stops many from blogging, but day-to-day existence and complaining about work just isn’t good enough! A friend of mine keeps a blog that acts as a postcard from Canada, and …

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