Month: March 2006

Last September, two days before I went to Tibet, I had a puncture on my bike. Unfortunately the timing meant that it had to wait until I came back from holiday (three weeks later) before it was repaired. Saturday, after coming back from a ride, I’m looking at the rear tyre and see a bit… Continue reading Punctures

A couple of weekends ago, I was shopping in Stanfords and bought a ticket for a talk at the Royal Geographical Society by John Simpson that was being advertised to raise funds for Prisoners of Conscience. I wasn’t sure what to expect, after all, you’d hope a reporter as experienced as he is would be… Continue reading John Simpson

Today’s news is reporting the protests that have been happening to mark three years since the war in Iraq began. This means it is also three years since I was in San Francisco and faced one of the more surreal moments of my life when I turned a corner to be confronted with a wall… Continue reading Three years since the Iraq war began