: About Me

Hi, my name is Russell. I've spent the best part of the last ten years shuffling around the world and have now come back to roost in my home town. Along the way I've seen and done many things, some interesting, some not. I thought I would try my hand at putting some of these down on paper (or keyboard and screen) to see if anyone thinks they are interesting!

Let me know if you like my stuff - it'll make my day....honestly, it really will :)

My passion is ...

music and travel

I know too much about ...

not knowing enough

My parents always told me ...

to eat my greens

My childhood ambition ...

to be a lumberjack

My favorite memory ...

watching airplanes in the sky

Why I write ...

good question, no good answer - sorry!

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

The Tao of Pooh/some chinese Post Rock

My first job ...

Door to door salesman

My best moment ...

when my wife said "Yes"

My inspiration ...

my wife

Travel > Travel Diaries & Adventures (Other) Travel journal or web blog, which is better?

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When I first started to travel there was no debate about blogs or journals. The option to have a web blog simply didn’t exist. Hotmail had only just come out and the vast majority of the countries I was travelling in had sporadic internet access to say the least. So I, like many others, wrote a journal. It was a great way to try and look cool whilst sitting alone in a cafe. I guess I even had dreams of attempting to publish my travel stories before I realised that there are a many a better writer than myself. I still have my old journals complete with stains, old tickets and smells o...

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