Tag: travel

Headwinds

When do you keep cycling into a headwind? When do you delay, or divert, or give up?

Why Worry?

We are aiming to cycle from Oskemen (east Kazakhstan) through Xinjiang (China) to Khovd (western Mongolia). Should we be worried?

Are cow bells cruel?

Cow bells are as intrinsic to the Swiss landscape as mountain peaks and wooden houses with steep roofs. But how would you like to have a permanently attached bell clinking and clanking as you move? And why would cows be any different?

Of toilets and rubbish (mostly)

France, a land of great scenery, architecture, baking, and terrible toilets. Why does New Zealand think toilets and rubbish bins are essential to support tourism when France is full of tourists and deplete of public toilets?

Built beauty

Why do we think some buildings are particularly beautiful? And why do we think old buildings are beautiful? Especially given how uncomfortable many would be to live in?

Blind Leadership

Banksy’s new statue could be called ‘The Politician’, or could be called ‘Blinded by the cause’. Whatever the name, its an excellent ephemeral public sculpture.

AI and social cohesion

As we hand more person-person tasks off to AI in the name of efficiency, what will the resultant trajectories be for human societies? What weight of human interactions are essential to maintaining social bonds?

Waterloo & Haiku

Is Greenland a route to Trump’s Waterloo? Let’s hope it invokes sufficient masses to unite against him. And, as a diversion from Trump, here’s some haiku inspired by snowy Japan.