Popagandhi

I could scarcely be bothered with my camera on this last trip; with so much food to eat, and so many things to occupy my time, who can? All, however, was not lost and there are still a handful of them.

Chiang Mai, according to its critics, has more or less become a backpacker’s ghetto a [...]

For two of my favourite things (Macs and Flickr): here’s how to use Automator to easily send images to Flickr.

Structures and Outlines

Touchdown, scheduled for one minute past midnight. Four before midnight we are lying low as we negotiate a touchdown, hovering. As aviation practices dictate, ten minutes prior to that airline crew had just persuaded passengers of the aircraft to return their seats to their original positions, keep the windows open, and to keep [...]

Teresa Teng is big in Chiang Mai. I hear it at my guest house in the mornings, I hear it in the restaurants I lunch in. As Z. says, “you munjens are everywhere!”
We munjens (yellow people) are everywhere. My Lisu trekking guide was part Chinese. The proprietors of the Fried Honey Chicken and Baked Shanghai [...]

Usually when that’s uttered by your partner, that’s a good thing. Not when you’re scaling by the side of a huge rock, or when moving your lower bits across an ancient tree trunk to get to the other side.. So apparently my lack of physical coordination is well documented. When we went trekking with a [...]