Monthly Archives: December 2009

Guest Blog: Raised From The Alive

By Tom | Published: December 27, 2009
For this, the first in an occasional series of guest blogs (they’re all the rage these days), I’d like to re-introduce an old friend, a man with whom I braved the horrors of Western and Central Europe for 10 weeks of this bicycle journey… ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Mark Maultby! Take it away… Hello there. This [...]
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Don’t Make New Year’s Resolutions

By Tom | Published: December 21, 2009
I think New Year’s Resolutions are a really crap way to make positive changes to the way you live. Why? Well, I reckon it’s much more effective to start doing something than to stop doing something. Most New Year’s Resolutions seem to revolve around giving something up. So, on the first of January this year, I’d like [...]
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Company For Christmas In The Caucasus

By Tom | Published: December 15, 2009
It’s December and the mercury is dropping fast. This week I experienced my first morning run in the falling snow, crunching quietly in the pre-dawn blue around the faded grandeur of Victory Park and its empty dilapidated walkways, crumbling statues and rusty fairground rides. The onset of winter took me back a couple of years to [...]
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This Is About Us

By Tom | Published: December 15, 2009
This is the moment at which we turn and face ourselves. Here, in the plastic corridors and crowded stalls, among impenetrable texts and withering procedures, humankind decides what it is and what it will become. It chooses whether to continue living as it has done, until it must make a wasteland of its home, or [...]
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A Little Video About Cycling In Yerevan

By Tom | Published: December 9, 2009
My last post was an invitation to come along to one of the many global bicycle gatherings that happened last Sunday on the eve of the COP15 climate change summit in Copenhagen. I helped to organise a ride here in Yerevan, and I took my trusty video camera with me. I’ve been slaving over a hot [...]
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