Horizon Chasing
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Nepal
I’ve just got back from a week in Nepal, a recce trip where I wanted to explore the possibility of a couple of long overland journeys through Nepal, Tibet and the closed kingdom of Bhutan. What a friendly, welcoming and cheerful people the Nepalis are. I stayed in Kathmandu, in the Thamel district at the Khangsar Guest House…
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Wadi Shawka, Ras Al Khaimah – and a Discovery
Just got back from a run out to an interesting looking wadi in Ras Al Khaimah – Wadi Shawka. A long twisting wadi that has been cut out of gabbro and basalt by a flashflood-fed seasonal river. Really picturesque and a good site to camp, although there are poisonous water snakes and also scorpions in…
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Discovering Discoveries
So after Oman and testing the Ford Escape in an offroad environment the impetus for buying a Land Rover has increased. The lack of difflock on the Ford is a serious issue that holds back its ability, and this is compounded by poor clearance underneath. The ideal solution of course for me is a Defender…
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Oman
Just got back from a quick explore of the mountains southwest of Muscat – the Hajjar range. I drove the little Ford Escape down and spent two days there, poking round various tracks through the hills and trying the Ford out offroad. The border crossing between the UAE and Oman proved very straightforward and amiable. With…
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Big Cats at large in the UK
Something I haven’t done much work with lately, but which has formed a large part of my adult life, popped back over the horizon yesterday when I did an interview for BBC Three Counties Radio. It covers the phenomenon of big predatory cats at large in the British countryside. During the 1960s and 1970s it became…
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The UAE again
Azerbaijan was interesting – Baku nestles on the banks of the Caspian Sea, which was beautiful at dawn. Fringes of palms and other desert trees ring a low-rise city which sits in semidesert. Russian is still widely spoken (mine is so rusty I didn’t use it) along with Azeri, which uses the Latin alphabet with…
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