A trip to Caucasus
I visited Baku in June, 2006, and then took the night train onwards to Tbilisi in Georgia. Tbilisi I arrived in Georgia by train, and what I saw made me sceptical… until I saw the center or Tbilisi, which is…
Photos from Asia
Cyprus
I arrived in Cyprus for a one week holiday two days after the Greek Cypriots rejected the EU and UN’s proposed reunification of the island, stopping the Turkish North from joining the EU on May 1st, with the rest of…
A week in Tokyo
I was one week in Tokyo in early May 2001. New Tokyo Tokyo is a modern city with 12 million inhabitants. It is cleaner than most cities of its size, and crime barely exists. The population is more homogenous than…
Israel and Jordan
While on vacation in Egypt in December 2000, André and I made a trip to Israel and Jordan. We visited the ancient city of Petra, the Dead Sea and Jerusalem. Petra Our first stop was the ancient city of Petra.…
My first Greek vacation
Erik and I had a one week holiday in the Aegean Sea from during the spring. Chios, Greece We spent most of the time in Chios, the fifth largest of the Greek islands. Çeşme, Turkey While on holiday on a…
A conference in Singapore
Singapore I spent a few days in Singapore for a conference in 1999. Singapore I also crossed the border into Malaysia to visit the Arulmigu Rajamariamman temple Johor Bahru.
A trip to Hong Kong
In September 1993, while I was working as a UN soldier in Somalia, I travelled to Hong Kong, Macao and China. Hong Kong Most of the time we spent in Hong Kong, which was a British colony until 1997. Macao…
A taste of India
In 1993 I travelled to India with a fellow soldier who also wanted to get away from Somalia for a while. We stayed in Bombay (later renamed Mumbai) and then went on to the former hippie paradise of Goa, now…