[ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 06.05.2011] ‘No, this is illegal in our country, we have to confiscate it. You should not have it.’ I am in deep trouble. How stupid of me, I should have known that I would not be allowed to enter Azerbaijan with a live hand-grenade and a kilo of near-pure Columbian cocaine. What was …
[ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 25.04.2011] I can deny it no longer, you have to know this: I am in love with you. My heart aches with the all-consuming fire that you are burning inside me. I love you, I really do. I am dizzy with happiness for discovering you, but equally with sadness, as I know I …
[ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 23.06.2010] It is 00:30am and I am proudly congratulating myself for my superbly mature but completely out of character decision to have an early night: at the wise old age of 35, two nights out in a row present the same challenge as the construction of seven medium-sized pyramids in one working week …
[ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 03.09.2009] ‘No nay, no no,’ said the White Rabbit, ‘don’t drink the potion! It will make you shrink in size. Follow me, hee hee, follow me this way, it’s much more fun. Let me take you to this amazing place, follow me. Follow me!’ Alice hesitated, but quickly gave in and followed the …
[ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 31.05.2008] At precisely 01:23am on 26 April 1986, Reactor #4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the former Soviet Union exploded, causing the worst nuclear disaster in the history of the world. Large areas of current-day Ukraine, Russia and Belarus were severely contaminated by the intense radiation and nuclear fallout, leading to …
[ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 04.03.2008] I really did not know what to expect of my first tentative steps in the world of CouchSurfing. What I was hoping for was to meet a few people, be they locals or foreigners, with whom to share a few beers and rediscover Vilnius. So what did I get out of it? …