Personal Blog
Trekking in the Nepal Himalaya – What They Don’t Tell You
There are loads of blogs and sites advising you on "everything" you need to know before embarking on a big hike through the Nepali mountains. I attempt here to offer a few things [...]
Thanks Cancer. Now F*ck off.
It has been many months since completing my treatment for rectal cancer. My tumour is gone. I’m clear. I’m back. I have felt compelled to write about the experience yet lacked the motivation to do [...]
Did You Hear the One About the Time I Got Bum Cancer?
A week after Valentine’s Day a man called Garth stuck his finger up my bum and I went from being somebody, to somebody who has cancer. Wait. Don’t jump to conclusions. The first thing you [...]
Screwball Rally: Touring Europe in an Old London Cab
Note: idly flicking through some old notebooks, I found this journal from 2010 scribbled in the back of one of them. I have transcribed it here almost verbatim, with some insignificant tweaks for flow. Some [...]
Recommended Reading: Insights from the Last Few Years’ Books and Shows
Introduction I've always been a slow reader. Someone once told me that was a "sign of genius", and he was a journalist and book publisher, so I'll take that one. The truth, though, is largely mired by [...]
Red, Dead or Med: Three Idiots, Three Countries and Three Seas, in Eight Days in the Middle East
Note: this was one of my early attempts to craft a single travel journal piece from an adventure. Two of my best buddies and I spent eight chaotic, harebrained days in the Middle East in the autumn of [...]