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Of Balkan Bikes and Civilised Cities | Andrew Duff

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Press for ‘Sikkim’. Catastrophes, Iron Curtains, and Currencies →. August 29, 2014 · 9:51 pm. Of Balkan Bikes and Civilised Cities. My short trip across Europe by train has already taken me through Greece, Bulgaria and Romania. Tomorrow will be Hungary then Austria, Germany and France and onto London. (For those with an interest in these things, I chose the convoluted third option suggested by that nice man in Seat 61. A brief look at the map. Bizarrely, this was the third time in a week that I’d heard a...

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India ’08-’09 | Andrew Duff

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Press for ‘Sikkim’. Category Archives: India ’08-’09. May 17, 2009 · 10:56 am. 8220;Literary lessons” a meeting with Professor Puroshottama Lal. There is one more encounter that I want to write about before I leave South Asia. It took place in Calcutta in late March. One of the things that I have been enjoying while travelling is making fresh, interesting connections. One of these led me to an email correspondence with John Keay, the author of many books including a highly-acclaimed History of India.

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Obituary: Martha Steedman | Andrew Duff

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Press for ‘Sikkim’. Catastrophes, Iron Curtains, and Currencies. Sikkim: Requiem for a Himalayan Kingdom →. March 24, 2015 · 10:05 pm. It was on a cold February morning in 2010 that I first knocked on the door of Martha Steedman’s beautiful Fife home. A tall, impeccably dressed woman opened the door and ushered me in. It felt like we’d known each other for years. In 2014, Martha was diagnosed with cancer. If I have one regret, it is that Martha will not be able to see the launch of. One word that I inclu...

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Australia and NZ ’09 | Andrew Duff

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Press for ‘Sikkim’. Category Archives: Australia and NZ ’09. November 11, 2009 · 5:26 am. The hitch-hikers’ guide to whitebaiting and thermal pools. A chance encounter with a hitch-hiker leads to a true dose of Kiwiana… [go to http:/ luddo.com. For version with pictures]. The hitch-hiker’s jaunty thumb loomed out of the gathering gloom and drizzle of a spring evening as I drove into the small west coast New Zealand town of Haast. My ears pricked up. Whitebaiting? I had been told by more than one person t...

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North India | Andrew Duff

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Press for ‘Sikkim’. Category Archives: North India. May 17, 2009 · 10:56 am. 8220;Literary lessons” a meeting with Professor Puroshottama Lal. There is one more encounter that I want to write about before I leave South Asia. It took place in Calcutta in late March. One of the things that I have been enjoying while travelling is making fresh, interesting connections. One of these led me to an email correspondence with John Keay, the author of many books including a highly-acclaimed History of India. Lal i...

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Delhi and London: learning to share the streets | Andrew Duff

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Press for ‘Sikkim’. India through its railways. Echoes of Empire →. June 20, 2013 · 8:40 am. Delhi and London: learning to share the streets. The Indian Quarterly is an excellent new magazine published by Madhu Jain. I contributed an article for the third edition, out now – available below. DELHI’S FUTURE: SHARING THE STREETS? But genuine transformation will only come from radical thinking and openness to ideas from around the world. Perhaps the wisdom of the Manasara Shilpa Shastra will once again i...

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USA ’09 | Andrew Duff

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Press for ‘Sikkim’. Category Archives: USA ’09. December 20, 2009 · 10:29 pm. Minding the Gap a life’s work. It was on the way out of Washington DC when I first saw the ad looming up from the side of the Freeway. MARRIED PEOPLE EARN MORE MONEY. I wasn’t quite sure what to think – the barefaced appeal to commercial self interest was, I have to admit, a little shocking. Middle America is surprisingly full of (often privately-funded) adverts for organisations like this. Oy vey Oy vey New York, New York.

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‘mind the gap’ journey 08-09 | Andrew Duff

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Press for ‘Sikkim’. Category Archives: ‘mind the gap’ journey 08-09. February 12, 2010 · 12:34 am. Gritters, stoats, and nature’s Prozac. There was something deliciously ironic about the situation. After 14 months of sauntering through the world with surprising ease and few time pressures, I found myself stuck in a Ford Transit somewhere outside East Croydon, late for dinner with a friend. I had covered two miles in the past hour. Continue reading →. Filed under 'mind the gap' journey 08-09. It’s in the ...

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South East Asia ’09 | Andrew Duff

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Press for ‘Sikkim’. Category Archives: South East Asia ’09. October 15, 2009 · 10:07 pm. Note to self: remember to breathe. It sometimes feels like this journey’s been all about learning to breathe again – from yoga in India to Tai Chi in China via the mind-focusing thin air of Everest Base Camp, and on to free- and scuba-diving and of course Vipassana meditation. As Australian author Tim Winton wrote in his uber-cool 2008 surfing novel Breath. Going deep down under. My arrival in the land Down Under her...