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I am an artist with a nomadic passion looking out for opportunities to be creative in all aspects of life. Travelling has recently fullfilled a big void for me to appease this hunger for stimulation and discovery of both the inner and the outer worlds. Hoping to be able to share stories and adventures with anyone who is interested. I plan to travel in the spring of 2011 by bicycle with no set plan as usual and open mind........





Europe » France » Midi-Pyrénées » Auch January 2nd 2011

A tour for peace, freedom, love, wisdom The journey? View france in a larger map A proposed journey to Asia by bycycle, to somewhere, then to somewhere else, maybe almost certainly starting from here, but things can and surely w... read more

Europe December 25th 2010

Hi everyone….yes its nearly Christmas, so here is my Christmas Eve message A summary of this year for me. The world is changing. Nature is changing. Politics and attitude towards life needs to change because it does and is effecting us all, we are suffering, the economy and the planet is suffering, maybe war or some overdue imbalance of this planet is inevitable based upon what I feel and what I have learnt about. I did not make it to the UK as I planned for Christmas, mother nature came up with her own itinery that I had to take heed of, with arctic conditions, currently still many people are stranded and roads blocked. The gulf stream is slowing down as predicted ten years ago, which will cause great extremes of temperatures, the UK and this ... read more

Asia » Nepal » Himalayas January 19th 2009

Labouche-Namchee Bazaar Day 9 It was a very cold night again -15 inside my tent so was very happy to quickly be on my way and walking to generate some body heat. Within a short time I warmed up and found myself flying along, wow! I am a walking machine, tak, tak, tak, tak, the more I descend the stronger I feel, my body must have got well acclimatized and now I feel as though I have twice as many resources at hand. I march along at full speed, enjoying the way my body is feeling and watching the scenery drift past. I plough up the hills like I have nitrous oxide fitted to my thighs and do not want to stop for anything. I am enjoying the ride so much, the rapidly changing scenery and ... read more
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Asia » Nepal » Himalayas January 6th 2009

Now I wait here in Katmandu, for my Indian visa whilst pollution builds up once again in my lungs, just two more days in Katmandu and I think I will be dead, suffocating on the infected fluids of my own lung lining, but just a bit longer then we are out of here. I cannot wait to get going the pollution here is the worst I have come across. I look down from a temple high up above the city, a sprawling mass of concrete for as far as I can see, a 360 degree sea of noise, filth and fumes. I plan to go to Jiri which is the starting point to a trek to Everest base camp, it follows the original route that the first explorers used on their attempts on Everest. I feel ... read more

Asia » China » Tibet » Friendship Highway January 3rd 2009

Chinese formalities dressed in pink pigtails...I miss China she was lovely I wait patiently whilst formalities take place inside her head, she looks at my passport for an uncomfortable amount of time without blinking or showing any signs of emotion. Flicking back and forward through the pages, looking for her favorite part……. the bit that was missing, so that she could execute her next line of command. “Take him away to be tortured….next”…! she seemed to be getting flustered a little now between all the amounting entry and exit dates, border stamps that had taken a strong residency within my passport until she finally looked up at me frowning, she said in English “remove your hat……… stand on one leg……….now whistle the Chinese national anthem backwards ”…….. I smiled, these formalities were getting the better of ... read more

Asia » China » Tibet » Friendship Highway January 2nd 2009

With tibetian prayers fresh in my heart I left to enter the world of buses and bus tickets once again and to head to the border of Nepal in anticipation to explore the heart of the Himalayas, the roof of the world....Sagamartha, yes I am coming. I would like a bus ticket pleeeeease! Inside the familiar cold grey walls of the bus ticket office I walked confidently up to the ticket booth, “I go Nepal, Pleeeeeeeeeeeeease”......”no!” Came back the reply, “what! No, no, no, no, look I have visa, its good, its good look at it and this look it at, yeah, a travel permit, yeah..... Go on then tell me I can’t go......”No!” Came back the reply again. She thrust my passport and bits of paper back at me, through the slit in the window, ... read more

Asia » China » Tibet January 1st 2009

The morning was clear and cold as was everyday. I could not believe my luck with this I had not seen a cloud in the sky for at least two months and kind of got complacent about it expecting the same blue canopy overhead. It was so beautifully clear, a crystal clear morning as I walked into the police station I beamed and cheerfully waved at them all and beamed even more when my travel permit was handed to me. This time within this bus station I felt confident and walked smugly up to the counter, 'tashdilleh'.....greetings may all the Gods bless you with many children and grant you blessing from Buddha to end the eternal suffering of birth death and re birth so that you go directly to a higher level of existence, oh and ... read more

Asia » China » Tibet December 31st 2008

Naughty Boy…! The first hour inside the alien’s entry and exit department of the police station was spent going over precise locations of where I had been since arriving in Tibet. I couldn’t help noticing the sign on the wall where it said EXIT, yes please! I thought. They asked me again how I got here and where I had traveled from. OK I thought to myself best just keep it sketchy as possible. I explained that I had been traveling from Thailand, Laos into China, hitchhiking and hoping to get to Nepal, which was all true. An official and stern voice replied ''do you know your visa is out of date by 1day, and that you have traveled through 5 restricted areas closed to foreigners'' whoops, really I said,. Genuinely surprised that my Chinese visa ... read more

Asia » China » Tibet December 29th 2008

Tuesday, New Years Eve, a police station…… somewhere in Tibet. ''No I don’t know how I got here or which road I took, you probably wouldn’t believe me even if I did know'' I try to explain whilst his Chinese eyes scanned and peered into my soul. He was a big man and addressed me sternly with a cold official approach. I tried to relax and lighten the mood a little by saying ''so am I in trouble then?'' no emotion at all, just a reply ''you will be fined'' he was more like a Cyborg...''you will be assimilated, you will comply''....well I had my traveling money but I did not budget for hefty fines, or any fines for that matter so already in my mind I denied all charges and was prepared to tell them ... read more

Asia » China » Tibet December 26th 2008

I sit here still numb from the events over the last 24 hours, covered in dust, mud, grime and snot…… freezing to the core of my being, dazed, amazed, shocked, but alive....! I recall the day before and re wind in my minds eye the events, the marathon road trip that lay unaware just a few seconds ahead of my unknowing as I set off down an uncertain road with the only certainty that the heading I wanted to follow on my compass showed NNW, and hoped a ride would come along soon. The morning had felt good, positive, there was love in my heart. I felt as clear as the blue sky above, unhindered by doubt, the distance did not matter something would happen I will get through here, with that I gazed upon the ... read more




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