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| 3rd May 2007 izzet | artiz - From: The Republic of Yerevan Hadi bakal1m unlu de oldun. artik bi belgesel falan cekersin... |
| 2nd May 2007 bedreddin | random int? - From: Down and out in France and Spain someone who knows that "int" is mnemonic for "interrupt" in x86 assembly?? tell me more... not done traveling yet. working on a new blog. i hope i'll be heading towards the "far east" very soon... |
| 1st May 2007 fear-beag | your hair - From: A Dangerous And Uncertain Place Regarding the hostile reception you got, I honestly think it was your hair that done it - they probably never saw anyone quite like you waling their streets, and just didn't know what to make of you.... |
| 30th April 2007 random int | what's next? - From: Down and out in France and Spain I'll be disapponing if you just stop. You did not even touch Eastern Europe, which would be lot's of fun - I am sure, or Far East. India could be fun too. Looking forward for your next blog. Good luck! |
| 24th April 2007 sen beni biliyorsun... | sen beni biliyorsun... - From: Down and out in France and Spain yaninda olmaliydim... |
| 24th April 2007 sen beni biliyorsun... | sen beni biliyorsun.. - From: More on Bazou yaninda olmaliydim... |
| 15th April 2007 evet | - From: Down and out in France and Spain i've also had that experience. with the sunset and the stranger... isn't that the essence of being? when you don't wear your masks for a moment and you are connected through the stillness? i like the way you write and hope to see you soon with your new experience. |
| 28th March 2007 Byard | interesting blog - From: A Dangerous And Uncertain Place Just wanted to say I enjoyed your postings and I think you've chosen a pretty neat and unique travel route =) |
| 13th March 2007 bazou | merhaba sahip:) - From: More on Bazou bunu okuyunca sas1racaks1n biliyorum..bana karsi vefan1 bu sayfalardan göstermissin(gerci beni yanina alabilirdin ama havaalanin bi kösesinde biraktin..öyle yalniz basima )..resmimin ve bahsimingectigi bu blogda sözüm olsun istedim..seni unutmadim sahip,simdi beni soracak olursan genc bir bayanin elindeyim,gayet mutluyum :P |
| 12th March 2007 Al Ajnabijah | - From: Down and out in France and Spain Nice to see you that you fell in love again - with a bike ... :) Love to read your blog! Will you once publish parts of your diary,too..? Hug |
| 10th March 2007 anonymous | sex appeal bedreddin in france:) - From: More on Bazou blogu takip edenler böyle resimler görmedi..sas1rtt1n bizleri..össgür degistirmis avrupa seni..ama turuncu duvarlar,kirmizi koltuk iyi bir kompozisyon olmuss..hele o diz:))) |
| 7th March 2007 bedreddin | Yemen to Turkey - From: Down and out in France and Spain I suppose I could write about it, but it's been a year already... and I'd probably say little more than "lived like a complete bum on the beaches of Oman, spent maybe 6 dollars a day, then was amazed at how modern and secular Iran is (it really is.. a couple young teenage girls chatted me up in the park, and I kept looking around for the /komita/ to come and arrest me for being long-haired), I was aghast at the pink and yellow mosques in Turkey". If anyone is willing to pay me lots and lots of money I could write blogs ;) |
| 7th March 2007 ConMel | - From: Down and out in France and Spain Does this mean you won't be writing about the trip from Yemen to Istanbul (visa Oman, UAE, Iran)? I'd love to hear about that trip...... |
| 7th March 2007 Eritrean in Exile | Post more pics - From: MIA in Yemen I have enjoyed reading your travel journal. I mostly enjoyed reading about Asmara, my former home. It is truly a diamond in the rough. Thank you for your honesty as you discribed your experience. |
| 6th March 2007 D | another failed relationship - From: More on Bazou The Universe sana arkadan veriyor allahin cezasi igrenc homo. This is what happens when you lose your backbone. If I find out you've been eating tofu I will kill you POS. |
| 3rd March 2007 Lebanese | - From: Sabra & Shatila Just wanted to highlight a point. If it wasnt for the Kateab and Lebanese Forces no Christians would have remained in lebanon. We as Christians owe it all to them and to their brave leaders for saving lebanon from its Arab neighbours. Long live the Lebanese Forces +/ |
| 26th February 2007 anonymous | Dharma Bum - From: Down and out in France and Spain I was thinking of you when I read that book by Jack Kerouac; especially regarding the bums and respectability. Pretty cool... just don't get sucked into Zen Buddhism crap. Also don't forget that half the monkeys who sit behind cubicles don't have half the respectability that they like to pretend they do. What's respected are the nice clothes and projected illusion of money. Ye kurkum ye! Heck, when I go traveling personally unshaven and ragged parents hide their children from me... but then I'm browner than you and hence I must be a terrorist... because we all know that brown people have those tendencies. I'm sure it's got nothing to do with the fact that I don't own a toothbrush, eat my own dandruff and don't let my scabs heal. |
| 26th February 2007 anonymous | - From: Down and out in France and Spain It doesn't seem fair to desdain anything that doesn't fit your needs or your way of doing things. Good luck on the rest of your travel. |
| 25th February 2007 Marcoelitaliano | Welcome back! - From: Down and out in France and Spain Good to read something from you after so long. I totally disagree on your opinion about Spain but I still love your writing. No, that's actually incorrect. What I truly like is maybe not your writing but rather your way of travelling. Marco |
| 23rd February 2007 Koen - Holland | - From: Bringing the 'War on Terror' home Very nice blog, keep it up! The bit with the Yemeni customs was funny... Oh no! Not knives! Not in Yemen, the country with more guns than people! |
| 19th February 2007 bedreddin | re:eritrean visa - From: 48 Hours in Djibouti nothing special. they had certain days in which you could apply, but no other constraints. but that was before april 2006 |
| 19th February 2007 Nath | Eritrean visa - From: 48 Hours in Djibouti did you have anything set up to get an Eritrean visa before you applied in Djibouti? I was there in April 2006 and was unable to get one from Djibouti unless i was a resident in Djibouti. The express option was also closed. |
| 15th February 2007 ethnochris | well done - From: A Dangerous And Uncertain Place Very interesting! I would like to see the "entery"-stamp of Somaliland!!!Greetings from Austria |
| 11th February 2007 old | hey - From: Bringing the 'War on Terror' home where the hell are you? lütfen ses ver! umar?m keyfin yerindedir. |
| 10th February 2007 Lucy Chatters | hi - From: 48 Hours in Djibouti hi, I've read most of your blog and it's interesting. i went to djibouti alone for 2 weeks this yr backpacking. it is, as you say, incredibly beautiful and almost uninhabitable at 50 degrees! they're the friendliest people i've ever met though - i stayed with locals every night as they seemed so concerned about me being a lone female traveller! Best, Lucy |
| 29th January 2007 Habestan | Ne diyorsun abe? - From: A day in the life Ne diyorsun Turk Effendi? Habestanlar is (ish - work) sevmiyor? Ne demek ya? Musliman habestan daha polite diyorsun? Ne demek. Cok yazk.... |
| 11th January 2007 raffy | berbera - From: A Dangerous And Uncertain Place in 1960 I was in berbera and from the pictures not much has changed it is a dangerous place more so being a white south african with an israeli stamp in my passport but travel along the east african coast was a great adventure and I recomend it to anyone with the cajones to try it |
| 9th January 2007 J | Great Blog - From: A Dangerous And Uncertain Place I enjoyed your blog very much. My experience in Berbera and Hergeysa was in late 1985 as a member of a small task force of infantry soldiers. Why we were there and what we accomplished remains a mystery to me. Perhaps our unwelcome presence is why you received those hostile stares. What I saw was a stoic people, surviving despite years of colonialism, cold war theatrics, war and civil war. I think your writing is open and honest, keep it up. |
| 24th December 2006 The spy | - From: Bringing the 'War on Terror' home I do hope you are well and that you haven't returned to the cubicle - best wishes and safe travels. |
| 2nd December 2006 zeinab | tanx - From: A Dangerous And Uncertain Place hi I am a girl from Iran i use from ur blog it was very exellent bye |
| 25th November 2006 xxx | my favourite... - From: Onwards and Up the Nile just been reading through all your old blogs again, this one is absolutely my favourite...thanks! |
| 31st October 2006 nebahat | gez gez.. - From: Bringing the 'War on Terror' home Selamlar...Yazmani bekliyoruz. |
| 29th October 2006 anonymous | - From: Bringing the 'War on Terror' home my hair is not thinning |
| 28th October 2006 M | Great blog - From: A Dangerous And Uncertain Place First of all thank you for taking the time and visit Somaliland. Somalia is dangerous place, that's why the North decided to breakaway. Your blog was interesting and 100% true. I'm an African living in the U.S. People look at you different if one is a foreigner, that is everywhere in this World. Your journey on the Horn of Africa was brave. Hopefully the so-called warlords put the guns down and realize that their fuckin killing themselves. I salute you for this great writing...ONE LOVE |
| 21st October 2006 Reader | - From: A Dangerous And Uncertain Place Dude, the only good blog I have read for ages. |
| 9th October 2006 bedreddin | in france - From: Bringing the 'War on Terror' home i know... shameful. i'm cycling around in france. |
| 1st October 2006 Patricia from SLO | Where are you? - From: Bringing the 'War on Terror' home Miss new blogs! Check in periodically hoping to get news...nothing yet! Where have you been? Are you back in Istanbul? |
| 13th September 2006 Mariam | Thanks for writing - From: A Dangerous And Uncertain Place I really enjoyed reading your blog. You write beautifully. |
| 12th September 2006 rolfen | ---- - From: MIA in Yemen Haha, still chewing qat.... I WARNED you in my last comment/mail/whatever rotfl Anyway have a nice time chewing, who knows maybe ill join you some day. oh youre gone? well then i may follow your footsteps... well for the moment i'm more the type to smoke qat in amsterdam, different experience... but oh mush more expensive... god |
| 7th September 2006 Emilyk | World to Bedreddin: Hello Bedreddin! - From: Bringing the 'War on Terror' home So where are you, what's new? I see you logged in on 29 August and as I've just signed up for Arabic classes at the Centre culturel arabe syrien in Paris in preparation for my next year's trip to Syria I am curious to know where you are with your language studies...and chukran leek for your fabulous postings. |
| 13th August 2006 Lebanese_arab | LEBANON IS ARAB - From: Sabra & Shatila i wanna comment on Jazzar and Michael Farrah...ya sharameet...you are traitors....all Lebanese Forces and Kataeb Party members are traitors...they are shitty people,you collaborated with Israel against not only the Palestinians but the Lebanese also.Also trust me if the Palestinians had weapons during the massacre of Sabra and Shateela,nobody will dare to enter the camp,because lets admit it,Palestinians in Lebanon wer superb fighters,they would have fucked Kataeb and Lebanese Forces (they would have the big SHARMOOT Elie Hubiqa)...any way Elie Hubiqa,Basheer Jmael are all in hell,they are rotting there,those wer the biggest traitors.FUCK THEM.Also lebanon is arab 100%,so you people what language are you speaking?you BASTARDS....Also Palestinians didnt start the civil war in Lebanon k...its you people who started it,ISRAEL promised the Christians in Lebanon a state and they told them Palestinians are evil,then the christians in lebanon believed that the a christian lebanese is the pure lebanese,by the way FUCKU,,the main reason for the civil war is ISRAEL,and israel should be destroyed becoz its not a country.Its called Palestine....iam lebanese from Saida and iam proud of this land,also i would happy if the Kataeb and lebanese forces to be FUCKED.Lebanese Forces and Kataeb are the biggest SHARAMEET. |
| 30th July 2006 Mads | - From: Bringing the 'War on Terror' home Hi. I was chuckling all through reading your blogs. Fantastically written. I am an Indian. Would love it if you could travel through India and write about your impressions, good, bad, ugly, everything. |
| 30th July 2006 Jeff | the ability to walk away - From: A day in the life compassion, regardless of your feelings that those you see suffering deserve it, is lacking in men's hearts today....we have seperated ourselves so, that the plights of others have no impact on our own well-being.....to see the poverty of a nation and see no more than an unmotivated beggar in their want for bread. - Jeff The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied...but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing. ~John Berger |
| 27th July 2006 Drake | Good Times at Hisar - From: Bringing the 'War on Terror' home Yo, sorry I didn't say goodbye in Istanbul. Hope you're taking it easy for all us sinners and having lots of cheap drinks at Hisar! |
| 23rd July 2006 KHaas | Gettin' Jiggy - From: Yellow Men in Israel and the West Bank Nicely written. Your piece transported me to my last visit in Hebron ('97) where it was Isralis soldiers on patrol, settlers creating consternation, and Palestian taxi drivers blasting Will Smith's "Gettin Jiggy With It" in earshot of the spice racks of the Souk. I'll never forget it... and I'll never forget the feeling that maybe in the music (?) there was some strange global unity. Amongst the kids (on both sides) anyway...... Thanks for the article. Keep writing. |
| 17th July 2006 Sarah | Nice one - From: Bringing the 'War on Terror' home Best blog I've ever read. I'm in Doha at the moment, got a bit stuck. They wouldn't give me an exit permit after saying their anti Danish cartoon stickers were not going to make me commit suicide for their cause. Now I'm teaching Technical English to Aviation and Engineering students from Qatar, Iraq and Lebanon (how I ended up doing that I don't know). Planning to leave this building site for good in Feb and travel around Africa, that's how I came across your site - I was checking about the possibility of getting a ferry from Yemen to Djibouti to start the trip. Where are you now? |
| 11th July 2006 king for a day | is it over - From: Bringing the 'War on Terror' home great journey, but it feels like you are about to wake up. |
| 9th July 2006 Darrell | Tesekkurler, arkadasim! - From: 48 Hours in Djibouti I can't imagine how rough it is, and I find myself speaking Turkish occasionally when the Arabic starts off... why couldn't you buy anything? You should have went to the casino! :) |
| 6th July 2006 Syrian at large | The tower tombs - From: Leaving the SAR Hi, I am a Syrian and I have got news for you. I worked on an archeological expidition at that same tower in the picture years ago, and it belongs to the Palmyrian Family Attanatan. Awesome picture dude. Cheers :) |
| 22nd June 2006 Muna UK | - From: A Dangerous And Uncertain Place I think you should of approached Somaliland, or Somali’s with an open mind, you should of researched into their history and culture before or even during your stay (access to internet is very easy there). Your experience I must say is disappointing, but very rare. Why were u given hostile stares, rather bizarre. It’s actually very shameful in Somali culture to be inhospitable; one of the greatest traits of Somali’s is their hospitability. There has been an increased Islamisation in Somalia as whole post-war. The green paste exfoliates the skin, it has minerals. One must remember Somaliland once a thriving city was left without a single roof on the houses during the war…its recovery compared to the previous destruction is remarkable given the time. By the way, how long were you in Somaliland? you should of really mixed with some of the educated classes, to have a proper dialogue and insight into the people. Its not really a place for tourist at the moment… may be with the recovery of the central govt…possibly soon, can Somaliland become a place for reckoning, and Somalia as a whole. PS the Turks are very mixed people, there are Turks with blue eyes, green eyes, naturally blonde, light skinned, darker skinned… the stereotype that a Turk is dark and looks a bit like a belly dancer is wrong...u just need to go to Turkey to see that. “I think it’s telling that Turkey is the other muslim country I’m aware of that is also pretty intolerant of other religions”... Turkey is a secular state, where Islam is not the state religion. Throughout Turkish history, they have been a very pluralistic tolerant society, with their personal law systems e.g. a Jewish persons laws/religion were recognised and accepted (in addition the Turks protected Jews during the WW2). Turkey according to its history is possibly one of the most tolerant states ever, when it came to other people’s religion, the position was “there is no compulsion in religion” surah 2 verse 256 of the Holy Quran. Apart from one dark chapter- Armenia…by the way, the history here is fuzzy and clouded in controversy. It’s possibly also in Turkeys interest not to join bureaucratic Europe at a time of good economic growth. Ps... blogger u seemed p****, if ur up for the challenge..may be in the future, u should reassess ur view of Somaliland and their ppl |
