Tag Archives: France

Moving Pictures From The Distant Past

By Tom | Published: February 2, 2010
While I was pre­par­ing to leave Eng­land, two years and eight months ago, an ener­getic pair of film­makers called Ben and James were expend­ing rather a lot of cash and effort on shoot­ing, edit­ing and pro­mot­ing the begin­nings of a video pod­cast series. The idea was simple — pub­lish short and snappy video epis­odes of [...]
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Hitching Armenia to England — Ultralight Style

By Tom | Published: August 21, 2009
I arrived at my par­ents’ home in Eng­land nine days after I left my home in Armenia to try and hitch my way there. The trip began well, pro­gressed through a lot of self-inflicted suf­fer­ing, con­tin­ued into ill health, and ended on a happy note. I have to be hon­est — it was a lot [...]
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Hitching from England to Istanbul

By Tom | Published: January 25, 2009
Face­book has man­aged to almost entirely replace email as a form of elec­tronic com­mu­nic­a­tion amongst friends. While I dis­like the immense waste of human energy that is poured into it, I decided to use it to con­duct a small exper­i­ment. I would allow my Face­book friends one chance to dir­ectly affect my life in the [...]
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Home For Christmas

By Tom | Published: December 7, 2008
Good even­ing. I’m writ­ing from the opu­lent lux­ury of my par­ents’ home! But the lux­ury doesn’t come from cent­ral heat­ing, a hot shower, or a well-stocked fridge (although these things are most enti­cing). No, the true lux­ury is the feel­ing of hav­ing a per­man­ent base to come back to, some­thing I haven’t had for almost [...]
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A Quick Trip to Blighty

By Tom | Published: November 21, 2008
As you might have guessed from the title of this post, Tenny and I caused some­thing of a stir when we turned up unan­nounced at my par­ents’ front door last Sunday night!
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