Both manufacturers and outdoor gear shops are keen to use buzzwords when describing their products, so the sooner you latch onto these, the better. Activewear Designed to make you …
Inside the grounds I was confronted by a long driveway. No vehicles are allowed in except the motorbikes for hire that belong there. After a struggle I gave in …
Athens was inhabited from the fifth millennium bc onwards, with evidence of settlements around the Agora and Acropolis dating to the fourth millennium bc. It began to flower in …
PEDOMETERS Never wear a pedometer. Seasoned hikers know how far they’ve walked just by smelling the air. (The further the walk, the more pungent the body odour.) Pedometers work …
The train took off as soon as I had been escorted into my sleeper. It only stops for a few minutes at Pyay. Then, the conductor having been ousted …
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS (OF THE HERD KIND) Properly equipped, you should by now be capable of tackling the freedom of the open footpath. However, the problem with the right to …
I walked about the downtown area thinking I knew where I was but I didn’t, so I taxied to the Central Hotel, had lunch in their blissfully cold air-con, …
The Mahamuni Paya is a vast complex just south of Mandalay. It has a plethora of entrances, passages, courtyards, pagodas, buildings and shrines all connected by tiled walkways lined …
At a gigantic monastery for novices, thousands of monks had their one meal of the day at this time. Poor things. I imagined how I would feel with only …
Cecrops was the first king to rule from Athens (his father-in-law, Actaeus, had his capital elsewhere in Attica). His torso, arms and head were human, but being earth-born his …