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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

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

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

Wheelnuts soaking in Oil Last task before actually boarding a ferry is to visit the engineering company which has offered us a set of lockable wheelnuts featured on BBC Tomorrows World a few months before. Turning up at the works, the boss asks us to pop back after a couple of hours w

Chapter Two We need a vehicle  for the trip, and it’s not going to be the Bedford Dormobile or the more common VW Camper. While the trip to India has been done on bicycles, motorcycles – with and without sidecars and even a little Austin 7, we are going to do it in style i

Ockham’s Razor My almost favourite film Contact starring Jodie Foster mentions Ockham’s Razor where the principle is: keep it simple. If you prefer the original Latin: entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitate or stick to the basic idea – cut away the crap. Th

What Name do you give to a War? The First World War is called the Great War after not being the War to End all Wars. World War Two is called The Great Patriotic War by the Russians. Gulf War One was Saddam Hussein‘s invasion of Kuwait while the Second Gulf War could easily be ca

Go to India! Dad gets promotion but it means moving from Cambridge where I grew up, to its rival Oxford. Just inside the Oxford Ring Road, the new family home is in Old Marston two miles from the even smaller village Elsfield, resting place of Baron Tweedsmuir, former Governor General

Reed Smith again host 3Cs Community at their offices in the Broadgate Tower where guest speaker is Mark Stewart of IMC/Bank of Telecom. This is not a bank as you know it, rather a platform for trading telecom services including automated payment services that ultimately aim to remove