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The Wrong Man for the Job

June 16, 2018
by George Emsden
appeasement, BREXIT, Churchill, Immigration, Neville Chamberlain, sajid javid, Theresa May
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BREXIT means BREXIT The most crucial issue that has faced this country for decades. Surprise referendum result compounded by PM David Cameron’s lack of any preparation as that was defeatist. He does the honourable thing and resigns. David Davis is chosen to lead the team and hun
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Overland Part Nine – City of Lions

June 10, 2018
by George Emsden
malaya, malaysia, satay, singapore, yuan renminbi
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Tiong Hoa Hotel We have a month to wait for the boat with the Land Rover to reach Singapore, so try to keep ourselves amused. Albert Street famous for its restaurants is a few minutes walk away and we end up with a favourite one. Here a young waitress usually serves us, practising her
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Overland Part Eight – South India

May 21, 2018
by George Emsden
arthur c clark, baksheesh, chapatti, colombo, hikkaduwa, jaffna, kandy, Mrs Bandaranaike, nuwara eliya, peradeniya, polonnaruwa, rameswaram, sabjee, sigiriya graffiti, trincomalee
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Temples We check in to the hotel and the steamer to Ceylon sails away. This part of India has some fantastic temples and Mahabalipuram is a name that lingers. For three days, we visit several catching a couple of festivals. One has a huge procession going slowly though the main street
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Overland Part Seven – Up the Khyber

May 14, 2018
by George Emsden
Alastair MacLean, dhobi wallah, drug addiction, drugs, hashish, Ice Station Zebra, khyber pass, kohat guns, kolat replicas, lurgi, mosquitoes, opium, Patrick McGoohan, peshawar, rameswaram, Taj Mahal, The Prisoner
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West Pakistan Our entry into West Pakistan is via the spectacular Khyber Pass and our first stop is Peshawar. The drive itself is uneventful, with Anussorn asleep in the back having caught some sort of lurgi, a clear sky, other vehicles for company and no drama, so what many would con
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Let’s All Visit North Korea

May 11, 2018
by George Emsden
donald trump, emulsion, kim jong-un, north korea, pyongyang, ryugyong hotel, white elephant
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The Land of Theatre So Kim Jong-Un apparently wants to move North Korea to the real world and a summit is planned for June in Singapore. A real achievement for Trump diplomacy and proof of one of Einstein’s (misattributed) sayings “Insanity is doing the same thing over and
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Overland Part Five – Up Before the Beak

May 02, 2018
by George Emsden
garmsar, meshed, mosque, nishapur, Omar Khyam, Persian carpets, shah of iran, shahanshah, souk
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Garmsar Back to Gol-e-Sara campsite and it’s off east again to Meshed in the north-east of Iran, and like Turkey, Iran drives on the right. The road near Teheran is good but further away from the capital, parts of it are just dirt road where the wheels of thousands of heavy vehi
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Overland Part Six – Afghanistan

April 30, 2018
by George Emsden
bamiyan buddhas, drugs, halina 35x, hashish, hepatitis, saddam hussein, the grand tour of europe, Vietnam war, yurt
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Afghanistan Having done Iran, we carry on east towards the Afghan border. First it’s passport control where our visas from the Afghan Embassy on the corner of Exhibition Road are checked – mine is only for one week. Further on is the customs post with all this strung out o
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Overland Part Four – Across the Bosphorus

April 29, 2018
by George Emsden
Black Sea, Bülent Ecevit, Istanbul, law of inertia, Newton's first law of motion, Osaka 70, samsun, Süleyman Demirel, UFOs, unidentified flying objects
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Carry on Camping Leaving Thessalonika behind us, we drive east finally reaching the Turkish border which is in Europe, 60 miles west of the Bosphorus, the traditional divide between Europe and Asia. First it’s passport control and then customs. Before the internet and desktop co
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Cry God for Harry, England and St George!

April 23, 2018
by George Emsden
family history, Globe Theatre, passports, st george, Wiliam shakespeare
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Today is Shakespeare’s birthday as well as St George’s Day so here’s a little quiz about England’s patron saint courtesy of the BBC  The guy was actually from Turkey being adopted by England (and other nations) about the time of The Crusades   This is also when
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