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Almost Always a Good Thing
Being a New Zealander is in almost all circumstances a good thing. I’m not sure if you’re aware of this, but people like us. No, they...
The To-Do List
I’m going to leave Bilbao in a week. I’m sitting at my computer with the door to my balcony open and my washing drying outside and I’m...
The days get longer and the nights smell green
By December the real Bilbao weather had arrived and enveloping rain had descended on the days. Each morning I walked in the dark past the...
The Worst Idea of All Time Podcast (In Drukjegang, Bhutan)
The podcast of Guy Montgomery and Tim Batt, in which they watch the Zac Efron movie We Are Your Friends, 52 times....
The days get shorter and the nights get cold...
I arrived back in the heat of Bilbao on a Wednesday afternoon three months ago. I walked from the bus station past the bars and concrete...
The British and the Weather
After a few nights in lovely, seaside Santander I boarded a plane to London. I spent a night sleeping on a bench at Stanstead’s...
Kebabs
The last time you heard from me I was sitting on a summer’s evening looking out over an Italian port city and wondering how to spend the...
Victory of the Plants
A number of things change when you cross the Pyrenees. The people are more contained and reserved. They smoke their spliffs without the...
The Inevitability of Class Struggle
Did you know that France has about half the world’s roundabouts? It’s true. They have about 30,000 of the things, and build another 500...
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