Category Archives: Smaller Journeys
The Party Isn’t Over: How the old ways of oppressive Communism are still alive and kicking in the break-away state Transnistria
January 14, 2014
At nineteen years old, Roman seems like any other teenager. Sitting in the kitchen as his mother cooks him his lunch, his girlfriend on his arm, he is relaxed and chatting about the new computer he is saving up to buy. But Roman is also a policeman in what is the most severe police-state in […]
A Busman’s Holiday
May 7, 2011
Recently, I spent some time in West Cork in Ireland. My family are Irish and I have been there more times than I’ve been to a newsagent. We have a house on the Sheep’s Head Peninsular, a tiny strip of land that juts out into the Atlantic, surrounded by mountains and streams. It’s pretty secluded. […]
