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Public Content Overland Through Asia
Apr 1, 2008

It was Wednesday 19 March 1975 when I saw Albert for the first time. Clad in green and yellow he was very handsome. True, he had seen better days but what else would you expect from a 1947 ex-Sydney Albion double decker bus? He was going to carry me from New Delhi to Istanbul for the princely sum of £83.
Public Content Eating suckling pig in Bali
Feb 1, 2008

As soon as Jon and I heard that there is a suckling pig restaurant in Ubud, we lined right up with the rest of the Indonesians for the perfect lunch. I should have seen the warnings...the brown conglomerate of mess that I mistook for mud or pig spices and the table umbrella that covered all of the other seats except for mine...
Public Content Sufi drumming night, Lahore, Pakistan
Feb 1, 2008

We filed into the ornate Lahore mosque, privileged Europeans in Pakistani dress, the women, obscured by shawls, even more privileged than the white men to be allowed to witness the Sufi drumming night...