flickering pictures

So I got back to Montreal last Sunday and I’ve been a little delinquent in the posting department — both re: the posts from Lebanon that you’ve come to expect when I’m travelling, and re: the regular neat-o news and whatnot that you’ve come to expect when I’m home. I expect that next week […]

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June 26
We meet up again with Hafsa and Zainab, who are dressed even more liberally than before — who cross the road with us to an another touristy shop, and through a mixture of browbeating and flirtation, haggle the poor confused shopkeeper down to about a fifth of his asking price for our faux-bijoux […]

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June 24
As no taxi driver wanted to take us the apparently tiny distance from our hotel to the Tunis bus station, we set out on foot in more or less the right direction. As it turns out, what should have been a 30-minute stroll turned into a sweltering 90-minute hike with our big packs […]

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June 22
So we landed in Tunis around 10am, surrounded by French, German and Italian vacationers. The very few clothes they were wearing were all Gucci and Dolce & Gabbana, and I got the distinct feeling they were headed straight for one of Tunisia’s many coastal resort towns, which was just fine with us.
We’re just […]

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Hello from Tunisia!
I’d meant to do some fairly frequent posting from Tunisia, but I may have to go for a series of little posts, at least until I can figure out how to type on this thing without finger-pecking at two words per minute. This place is beautiful though, and from what I can […]

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I know I got back from Asia a month ago, but I’ve finally had a few moments to get my photos together, Photoshop them until they don’t suck, and put them up here for general consumption. Have a look see at the new listings under South Korea and Japan on the photography page.
And by […]

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Told you they’d be worth the wait. : )

More pictures and a much-belated post soon…

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As I write this, I’m sitting in one of Pusan’s Internet cafes — or “pishi bangs” — surrounded by twenty-something guys laughing and smoking and blasting the hell out of each other online. We got in this afternoon on the KTX, a blazing fast train something like France’s TGV that can hit 350 km/h. […]

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So it’s been a couple of days since my last post — sorry for that — but all is well and we’re gearing up to head to the port city of Pusan tomorrow morning.
I live in a pretty cosmopolitan city, and as such there are large ethnic and linguistic communities there, but it was pretty […]

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South Korea’s president is not a popular man. He’s not so much George W. Bush unpopular — more like the bastard love child of Joseph Stalin and Richard Nixon unpopular. People here hate him like they hate Mondays, mortgage payments and bumper-to-bumper traffic. And no one seems to know why.

Nevertheless, they’re mad […]

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