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How To Finance Long-Term Travelling

By Tom | Published: October 22, 2009
When I left home in 2007, it was simple. I had 700 Euros stashed in my lug­gage, a cur­rent account con­tain­ing £3700 GBP with a Visa Debit card to get at it, and a couple of emer­gency credit cards. I’d be as stingy as pos­sible, because it wasn’t much! But it was all I had, [...]
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Trying To Ride Through Yemen And Failing

By Tom | Published: May 21, 2009
Aden turned out to be an inter­est­ing place to spend a few days. What the city lacked in archi­tec­tural grace it made up for with its laid-back, low-key atmo­sphere and friendly people. In fact, it felt more like a col­lec­tion of quaint sea­side towns strung around a small vol­canic island than a former national capital. [...]
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Southern Arabia And The Troubles Of Yemen

By Tom | Published: May 16, 2009
Until a few months ago, the Repub­lic of Yemen fell into that embar­rass­ingly large cat­egory of nations that I would struggle to point out on an unla­belled map. (Try it now. Yemen. Where is it?) Occupy­ing the south-west corner of the Ara­bian Pen­in­su­lar, this former Brit­ish colony nowadays makes the head­lines only for its con­tinu­ing run [...]
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Ethiopa: No Pain, No Gain

By Tom | Published: April 27, 2009
I waved good­bye to the Tele Café in the piazza of Gondar, where I’d enjoyed many a delightfully-spicy break­fast or pint of mango juice. I was about to exper­i­ence a mag­ni­fi­cent ride through the soar­ing high­lands of north-central Ethiopia. As I rolled out of town towards the green val­leys below, how­ever, I was nervous. Aside [...]
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My Conscience-Free Kebab in Aleppo

By Tom | Published: January 29, 2009
A while back I pos­ted on the mer­its of veget­ari­an­ism. While not becom­ing a strict veg­gie, I decided that drastic­ally cut­ting down my meat intake was prob­ably a good thing, hav­ing the bonus effect of mak­ing occa­sional meaty treats more enjoy­able. I said I was look­ing for­ward to eat­ing a kebab for 50 pence without [...]
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