After Diarrhoea Eggnog we made Christmas Drink number 2, Mulled Wine, this eve. I got HIVES.  ON MAH FACE. Winter Christmas sucks. Furthermore, F MY LIFE.

And life is cranking along in the right sort of routine.  I’m saying yes to way too many hours at work for my liking as I am skint.  December is expensive, damnit. The most amusing days at work is what I call Old People Day.  We have a certain day once a week where every [...]

The oldest inhabited city in the world!  We were warned that the bus station in Damascus was going to be utter chaos and we weren’t let down.  We watched, impressed, as our little tour guide stood in the middle of about 20 Syrian taxi drivers all yelling at her and at each other.  She did [...]

Is now up to two celebrities that I’ve met and actually talked to.  Richard Ashcroft (from the Verve) and Baby Spice.  Yay London!

This was my most favourite place in Syria despite warnings of the dodgy locals, who, in the end didn’t give us much grief at all.  We arrived late afternoon to the tiny city, a beautiful oasis in the middle of the desert.  The ruins of Palmyra were the most beautiful I’ve seen and they turned [...]

I was well ill at this point.  My Western stomach decided it had had enough of Eastern food and was living off liquids with frequent sprints to the bathroom.  We left Aleppo for Hama to spend the next night. We meet out minibus driver, a really sweet Syrian man who, like most Syrians, had no [...]

We boarded a bus with a group of excitable Syrian men who I’m pretty sure used us as a decoy tourist bus so they could smuggle some sort of contraband in.  I saw some of them hiding various bits and pieces in the bus’s smaller overhead compartments.  We noticed pretty quickly that in these parts [...]