No, I haven’t been sending out emails to say that I’ve updated my site. Apologies to those who were expecting me to, but I really don’t like unnecessarily filling up other people’s inboxes. At the end of my last Travel Log entry I briefly mentioned the site’s RSS feed. […]

There I was, standing in a chemical factory, minding my own business. Suddenly one of the drums burst into flames: it burned for a few seconds before the heat it was producing (which I could feel from over 30ft away) ignited the surrounding drums. Another few seconds went by, and then […]

This entry is going to be a little different from those that precede it: I’m going to try to write it ‘thematically’ rather than chronologically. Alan de Botton, in his book The Art of Travel, talks about how if we were going to travel in a structured fashion, we would be traversing […]