Features
What I Did On My Vacation to Iraq
Sean Rorison recounts his 2003 trip to Iraq just a few months after the American invasion had begun. Ten years later, reflecting on how he saw the country just as Saddam had been deposed.
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Logs
Becoming the Dictator – Preparing yourself for the role»So it all rolls down like this. You side with the rebels, against some idiot who thinks he has the authority to run this country because of some stupid ritual called an “election’ – the nerve! You know you can do better, people’s will be damned, once you’re in the driver’s seat this backwater of a country can get where it’s supposed to go.
Dead pilots, crazy terrorists, your chance for glory»Pass out the rest of your cigarettes to eager passengers, and if it’s a federal crime to kill terrorists and smoke on an airplane afterwards, then I don’t want to be right.
Die microbe die!»
Whether travelers know it or not they’re engaged and actively participating in what amounts to a perpetual state of warfare,
Photos
Mumbai Memories»
Long before the success of Danny Boyle’s multi-Oscar winning film Slumdog Millionaire, based on the lives of various youngsters living in its cavernous slums
NZ Photos»
Ok, it ain’t dirty, it ain’t third word and it ain’t adventuresome.
But give me a break! I am testing out the new gallery feature!
Iran – Cartoon Time»
A cartoon exhibition held from August 14 to September 13, 2006 in the Iranian capital, Tehran, was the focus of much international attention and controversy due to its holocaust theme.
Reviews
Book Review: Blood River – A Journey To Africa’s Broken Heart»
It’s a widely accepted fact that there are few places left on the planet that have yet to be penetrated by the great white explorer. Some hidden corners of New Guinea and Ecuador may still throw up hoards of xenophobic, stick-wielding natives, but no longer do our world maps still have uncharted territories marked as [...]
Book Review: Bradt Congo by Sean Rorison»
PBs’ very own crackpot, the inimitable Dean Farisian, reviews the latest offering from the Bradt Guides collection – The Bradt Travelguide to The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
Book Review – Bradt Rwanda Travelguide»
Bradt Rwanda Travelguide – Janice Booth and Philip Briggs.
The first time I picked up a Bradt Travelguide, I wasn’t sure what to expect. Another Rough Guide? Another Let’s Go? Footprint or Lonely Planet perhaps? What I found was a new style that had certain similarities to some of the others, but at the same [...]
