Kicking up the dirt!
Pic of the Week – 30 September 2005 by Mike Kingdom-Hockings © 2002 All photographs are digitally watermarked – please don’t infringe copyright! Mike adds: “This…
Learning to Ski
When I broke the news that I would be moving to Switzerland, every friend immediately cracked a joke about Swiss bank accounts. Their second reaction was…
A volunteer at the Athens Olympics
“Olympic Games accreditation, which is designed to control access to venues and transport for the likes of athletes, officials and VIPs, creates a hierarchical society of bewildering complexity. The significance of the accreditation badge goes far beyond mere utility and reflects the status of the wearer, much like the ownership of cows or fast cars in other societies.” Rowland Jack gets to go behind the scenes at the world’s biggest sports event.
The Expat Pub
For the British expat armchair sports fan, time abroad is full of frustration. Life sometimes feels like an endless sequence of thwarted television-viewing ambitions, punctuated only…
Bush, balls and blast
“Those of us with any sense have been stoutly ignoring the state visit by Emperor Bush to London this week (whilst those of us without sense seem to have spent the week attempting to scale the gates of Buckingham Palace, where the nice guards with silly hats have shown admirable patience…)” Dave Stock writes for British Expat magazine about the Bush State Visit to the UK and the Rugby World Cup final.
Tropical Tioman
“Being a diver, the well known diving location of Tioman was a natural draw. Once voted one of the 10 most beautiful islands in the world, Tioman was used as the location of the mythical Bali Hai in the ’50s film South Pacific.” Julian Hyde waxes lyrical about the beauties of Tioman.