October 31, 2010
“Your ear, soap”
“Sorry?” I say
“Soap, in your ear, let me just..” and before I had processed what he said or what was going on with my ear (maybe I did have soap in my ear, having just showered to wash the day’s sweat and grim off me) the harmless looking gentleman began digging in my ear.
After being a little heat stroked from the bicycle, taxi, and motorcycle ride in the midday heat of Mumbai, I [...]
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May 5, 2010
Last week I posted the detailed reports from Slava on the situation currently unraveling in Kyrgyzstan. This post takes from those reports and adds in my personal experiences in Kyrgyzstan when I visited in 2007.
“Did you hear about Kyrgyzstan?” was the message that came across Skype from Slava Koshelev in Moscow. It was April 7, 2010 and almost three years since my time in Kyrgyzstan. Slava was the Kyrgyz tour operator that took me there. [...]
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