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"Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?"
- Kurt Vonnegut
We spent time in Dharamsala in 2015. This is where the Dalai Lama has lived for many years in exile from Tibet. During this time we volunteered with a small local agency assisting Tibetan refugees,...
Following the gray years of lockdown and curfew, I managed to escape with a small band of friends to trek to the base camp of Kanchenjunga in Nepal; third highest mountain in the world. A difficult...
The Irish are, it seems, a happy bunch, despite a fairly tragic history. Perhaps they are buoyed by the thought of ‘constancy’. YB Yeats said: “Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of...
I first visited Morocco in 1972, where I lived on a beach for six months with friends. I returned in 2011 with a different group of friends, miraculously it still seemed as amazing as it had the...