Travel

Here, in pictures, is how I celebrated my 30th year of life on Earth and the summer solstice in one awesome Indian microadventure. Enjoy!
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A one month pedal powered speaking tour of the UK from John o’Groats to Lands End in October, giving daily talks about deforestation in Borneo along the way, and with lots of silly rules thrown in for good measure.
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As I’ve  said a few times, one of my goals for 2014 is to run a marathon in under 3:30. A goal like this forces me to take my health …
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On May 2nd I’ll be competing in the 3rd Himalayan XC Marathon organised by the guys at Running and Living. In short this means that I’ll be taking a week out of my life to run 13 miles (21 km) up a mountain in the Indian Himalayas before turning around and running 13 miles back down again.
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Soulchaser began as a travel blog back in 2005. I was 20 and had just quit my awesome job in a fit of frustrated wanderlust that had manifested itself as a sort of demented, irrational, but growing anger and dissatisfaction at a fairly free but also stagnant life in Oxford.
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Fools, who would search for the soul of India in the cold and sombre shadows of her many tombs and temples! May your tour be long and consuming, for while …
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Ajay has no muscles in his legs. He moves, crablike, by grabbing the balls of his feet with his seemingly huge hands, muscled by their continuous labour, and using his …
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Pleased, I went back to my room and he followed me, still talking. Then, suddenly, he patted my crotch and asked me if I wanted to “make homosex”!
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Of course that is only the romanticism of a mind with too much time and too little purpose. These streets were not ‘made’ at all. They are a consequence: the result of the construction of houses and homes, shacks and shelters sprung from the ground in spontaneous unplanned disarray. Theirs is the confusion of India herself.
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Mark Twain said of Indians that “with them all life appears to be sacred except human life”. Walking along the riverside in Dwarka it occurred to me that dog life …
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