You can’t get a job here! Podcast
This is chapter 26 from my memoir 9 Months in Tibet. If you click on the thing above you can hear me reading it -- it takes less that four minutes -- or you can read the text below (or you can go back to what you were doing before). As always, I'd really...
read moreA three dog attack — PODCAST
This is my second podcast. I got some encouraging feedback to my first podcast and decided to do another one from my Tibet memoir. I'd be so grateful if you would leave a comment under here. Feedback from readers of this blog feels so valuable and encouraging....
read moreBird Island
This is Chapter 24 from my Tibet memoir in which I walk into the wilderness, stay a night with nomads and find a surprising level of comfort in a cave... The road into the mountains got steeper and the truck got slower. As we approached the high pass we were crawling...
read moreThe travellers’ co-op in Lhasa
This is Chapter 23 from my Tibet memoir which describes the most unusual Tourist Information Centre I'd ever come across... Before the end of my first week Lhasa had me hooked and I knew I should stay, settle down for a while and find something to do. The finding of...
read moreThe casual exuberance that is Lhasa
The new place we went to was a grimy truck stop with Tibetan pilgrims from all over the country, people who looked weather-beaten and dangerous in their long woollen coats. Some of them had swords. The manager was a barrel-chested bandit with a laugh that could have...
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