As ever, nothing is as simple as it should be. If there is a God, he has once again proven his eternal and limitless disdain for me ( Read more... )

The people of Dubai are a lot like the land they inhabit. Dry, troubled and unfinished. Barren strips of sand and ragged shrub that obstinately defy common sense ( Read more... )

I'd always wanted to travel, to see different cultures, new designs, people and places mostly consigned to pictures and maps ( Read more... )

I finally got to see behind the veneer today, into the snarling underbelly of this country. Glasgow with nice hot desert air ( Read more... )

But not a drop to drink ( Read more... )

It's funny how dreams often show you what you desperately want, even need to be true, how they can feature the sort of thing that, despite every effort, will never come to pass.

It's funny how dreams often make you wish you hadn't woken up.

"What if everything you think you know is an elaborite dream"

Anton

No matter where you are in the world, banality can find you ( Read more... )

Once more entombed in the sanctuary of my pool house I think back on the madness of the day. It's not the first time I've secreted myself away here, where no one seeking anything but me would dare tread ( Read more... )

Everyone who's ever watched a cop movie set in the big apple knows NY cabbies are the craziest drivers in the world. Anyone who's ever been here knows otherwise, the drivers rocket along under no discernible speed limit and not held sway by any perceivable law. The driver of our car today was 15 minutes into his career and bellowing directions out ( Read more... )

First point of note, I look like a tourist. It's some manner of genetic imperative that states you must look like a moron on holiday. But that's a common musing and mostly irrelevant ( Read more... )