Pictures And Words

So now I am in Nepal. There was some mild relief upon arrival as I was in India with a visa extension that I grew more and more dubious about, especially when I heard the lawyer that helped me obtain it had been arrested for making false visa extensions. On the border though [...]

Stop the bus I want a wee wee,
Stop the bus I want a wee wee,
Stop the bus I want a wee wee,
And the driver wants a poo.

The wheels of the bus go round and round,
round and round,
round and round,
The wheels of the bus go round and round,
aaallll day long (literally in this case)

Here are a few more pictures from Leh. Including some extra special night shots.

Here are some of the reasons I came all this way to Leh.

I have just been completed one of the most amazing journeys I have been on. It lasted 4 days, it spanned temperatures from 45c to below 0, from a few hundred meters above sea level to heights that impede breathing. However, despite all this a major highlight of the journey was the feeling [...]

To inspire I have decided to share with you the story of how I am learning to draw. I started to draw in Goa around 4 months ago. I had dabbled in drawing sketchy things a few times in the past, but never really locked on to anything and developed a style, mainly [...]

Another post! Hurrah for me! Hurrah for all you people who read this site! I’m sorry for letting you all down and not posting as much as I used too. My dad left me a message displaying his disappointment at me for not posting more, something along the lines of “you [...]

After 4 months of not writing, even totally neglecting emails I finally feel like writing again. I think something jarred my mind a bit which made writing not so appealing. I think it has to do with my sudden passion for juggling, and then a huge passion for drawing swept me up, I [...]

Last night I got back to my room around 2am, closed my windows and as I turned around I saw a snake coming in my room under the door. panic. Later I knew I panicked because I didn’t even think to take pictures of it, I just wanted it out of my room. [...]

After sweltering stinking noisy Jakarta, where I sheltered in my room most of the time, arriving in Yogyakarta was a relief. The temperature was much more agreable, there was less trafic, and it had some charm, something which Jakarta lacked, or maybe hid very well.

I didn’t even know I was going to go to the Gili Islands, Islands that I had heard of before and nearly went to 8 years ago. They have always been on my mind as the prospect of being able to live on an island that you can walk around in about one hour [...]

A while ago me and Jules went for a walk up a volcano, we met two young ladies from England who were also going up, so we formed a group.

From Sumatra with friends to Java alone, and then onto Bali with family. As usual I have been covering ground whilst changing company, this type of living creates the most wonderful memories, segmented by the places I have been and by the company I kept. I figured it was about time I digitised [...]

There is this great guest house in Malaysia, the rooms are nothing out of the ordinary, in fact they seemed to be very sauna like, but them again it is in Malaysia. The thing about this guest house seemed to be its roof top garden, it had a good view, but then again nothing [...]

I’m on a boat! I’m on a mother$*#@ing boat!! Rushed through Malaysia immigration, passport stamped out, rushed onto the boat to Indnesia, sit down, set off almost 2 hours later…classic, didn’t even get time to eat breakfast due to the implied hurry.

After 1 year of working, in 3 different jobs, starting with testing sewage, onto testing gold, then on to testing pepsi, I am now back traveling again. In the middle of the last year it felt like it was never going to come, it was only a year, but sheesh it was tough, I [...]

Whilst reading about the Israel/Palestine mess I found a pro-Israel site saying that while some Israelis lives are changed for the worse by all the gaza bombs, the Arabs are loving it.

I’ve had a recurring theme in my dreams throughout the years, and its the mushroom known as the Fly Agaric, or its Latin name Amanita Muscaria. Last night I had one of these dreams again, I wont bore you with the details of the dream, other than the mushroom was growing all over like [...]

I took some pictures this morning of a dead cockroach, and when I uploaded them to the computer I noticed that the default name that the camera gives the pictures had ticked over to 0001! Which means that I have taken 10000 pictures with my camera, so to celebrate I will upload the 10000th [...]

Happy New Year! So, how was everybody’s 2008? Mine was pretty good. I started in Manchester and Ended in Australia, getting a good look at 5 different countries. I went to one of the highest points on Earth, to one of the lowest. And 2009 looks like its going to [...]

Whilst in India I started to build up a collection of precious and semi-precious stones. I think I have some pirate blood in me because whenever I saw a jewel shop I would gorp into the window drooling at all the shiny stones. One day I hope to buy a treasure chest (and [...]

Hello again! Was just looking through my past photo’s and found some great pictures of Bangkok that I thought I should share.

I live East of Perth, as you go east the urban gives way to rural, and eventually the rural gives way to raw nature, a very hot raw nature at the moment. I live probably halfway in the urban-rural transition. there are some hills to the west of where I live and over [...]

Its been a while since i last wrote for my site, I feel disappointed in myself for doing this. However I have been working a lot, waking at 5.30am and traveling to work 1 way for almost 2 hours. So I haven’t been taking too many photographs, or doing anything else really. [...]

Hey there, just at work at the moment browsing the internet, and i found this spinning girl picture.
Which way do you see her spinning? I’ve just been staring at her for a bit and im not sure.

During my last few weeks in Israel I was homed in the north, living with Lee’s parents in Raquefet, a beautiful modern village. The north of Israel is full of things to see, so me and Lee had lots of trips out to see things!

Sorry I’ve been super slow again with letting y’all know what I’ve been up to, I mean I have been really slow!! Im now in Perth in Western Australia, before this I was in Thailand, and here I am writing about Israel!
Me and Lee went on a trip around Israel to see some of [...]

I’ve found something to make a top ten about again, and its Mezuza’s, the little tube things that contain a prayer on words that Jewish people have on their doors. So here it is!

I went to Jerusalem. Holiest of holy places for 2 of the 3 big guns of religion and 2nd most holy place for the other (Islam, the first for them being Mecca). There were a lot of amazing things to see, the wailing wall, the golden mosque on the hill, the crazy security [...]

Despite the macho image of Israel, and all its citizens having to go to the army and take part in a thouroughly macho affair, some gays do get through, I checked the facts and it turns out they have an average amount. This is their day in Tel Aviv.

So far in Israel I’ve been in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem to visit the Holocaust museum, and to the north a couple of times, which is where Lee’s parents live.

Hey for those of you who are worried that im in Israel, in the middle east!! Don’t worry I know its dangerous here but im an English citizen and I can come home to nice safe England any time I want……….

There’s a lot of really good graphiti here in Tel Aviv, enough that it waranted its own page, so here it is!

Tel Aviv isn’t the capital of Israel, but I think its the centre of most things here (apart from the religion side of it all, in that case its the capital, Jerusalem) all the money is here, things are expensive, equaling England in cost. Tel Aviv has the nickname “The Bubble” because its oblivious [...]

Again i’ve been a bit slack on the ole writing front, also I needed to pay the people that host my site some more money, so I didn’t want to upload before this time, why…I dunno, since I knew I was gonna pay them, I should start selling something on my site, just a little [...]

After some time with rare internet visits, taking many trains and a course of antibiotics, living on a beach, staring in a Bollywood movie and leaving hot places for even hotter places, I suddenly feel like sitting in front of my computer and writing for a while.

Hoorah! I finally left Delhi, and sheesh I was getting a bit sick of it. Its very high pressure, so much pestering. I spent a lot of time in my room reading, playing on my Nintendo DS and watching movies. It was just so much hassle to walk around getting….hassled, for [...]

Hello, my name is Indie and im from Manchester, in England, the United Kingdom of Great Britain. This site of mine has lots of photos on, and words from my very own hands and mind and memories. I’ve only recently come back to Manchester after traveling around for some months, having a lovely [...]

I’m now back down from the hill, soon everyone will be moving down, the two Swedish guys come down soon as well, one goes to Zimbabwe and the other has plans to come for a little jaunt with me, Dave and Rory. Which will be I don’t know where really. Had a lovely [...]

Its true, im living up the top of a very high hill, you could call it a mountain really. There’s a shepards village up there, that they only use in the monsoon time, at the moment they just sleep outside wherever they are. There’s no electricity or running water, there is a spring [...]

I was going to write something poignant about how everyone is searching for love and comfort, and how whilst traveling I find a sense of comfort, and a feeling of love for the people I meet and the scenery I see, and how even though im not working, and mainly just hanging out eating, chatting, [...]

Im now in Bagsu, near Daram Sala in the north of India. All very very nice here, it more than offsets the greif I felt when I found out that my Australian visa…well I don’t have an Australian visa anymore thats the thing. Got an email saying I don’t fulfil the criteria, ho [...]

Im in the Himalaya’s!!!!

Feels like ive not done a post in a long time, I guess I havn’t. I’m now in Varanasi, in the north, but still in the heat, gotta go further up vertical ways for cooler air.

Im now in Gokarna with Dave, on the east coast this time, its much much more picturesque than Puri, its a little more hipper, as in a more younger scene, there’s more touristy shops than Puri, but it is very very beautiful. Its a very small place, and a very religous place. As [...]

I am now in Bangalore, in the south. Its the most modern city in India, higher wages, higher prices, richer people, less poverty. Standing on the main shopping street you really could be in any major city in any country, there’s nothing really to distinguish it from the others. Lots of western [...]

I have finally left Puri, I was there for 3 weeks!! Didn’t think I was there for that long, very strange it was.
So now im in Bubaneswar, the closest city to Puri, it aint so good here, dirty as hell as usual, busy streets, wild drivers. There are however lots of things to [...]

I went to the fishing village the other day, its a little up the coast from where I am. Going there is a look into a different way of life, a way of life surrounding fishing. There’s lots of low straw roofed houses, many families all living close together. The beach is [...]

Cows! There’s cows everywhere here in Puri, so here is a much nicer top ten, its the “Top Ten Cows Of Puri”. Check out these cows!

Namaste to you all, thats a Hindu greeting, if you didn’t know. Im still in Puri, 10 days ive been here! I worked it out today, and I was a bit shocked, i would have said 7 days max, but no! 10! Its really nice here, really relaxing, ive been having a [...]

There’s an awful lot of dead turtles here on the beach, as you walk up along you constantly coming across another one, i’ve taken a lot of pictures of them and have decided to do a top ten dead turtles. So without further a do here’s “The Top Ten Dead Turtles of Puri!”

Im now in Puri, south of Calcutta on the coast, quite a popular seaside resort for Indian people. The train journey here was horrible, caught a sleeper train, the bed was a bit narrow and not long enough for me, but since i wasn’t in it that much it didn’t really matter. I [...]

Its my birthday today, ive not really done much to celebrate it, well ive done anything really, I guess I should get drunk later on.
Im leaving Calcutta tommorow, i bought a train ticket to go to a placed called Puri, south of here on the coast. As i was buying the ticket in a [...]

Been out and about a bit these last 2 days. Yesterday I went to the Botanical Gardens here in Colcutta, pretty nice they were, there’s some pictures of them in this post. A good thing about the gardens was i didn’t get mobbed everytime i took a picture, anywhere else and as soon [...]

Im in India! I love it! I love it more than the sound of babies crying! More than the sound of puppies in pain! More than the sound of bones breaking! (20 points to whoever knows what film I plagerised these laments from, which despite sounding negative im using to [...]

Well, my time here in South East Asia is nearly over, the little yellow people of South East Asia have a big place in my heart; I love the food, the religion, and all the other stuff I can’t quite think of right now.
(images in post are clickable)

I’m back in Chiang Mai, amidst girly bars and guesthouses, markets and mopeds, hippies and harpies. It’s got it all! I quite like it here, when i was arriving here on the bus I could smell the cities smells wafting in through the window, spice and hot rubbish, and my heart beat like [...]

(You do know that if you click on the pictures you get a bigger one don’t you?)
Hello, its me again, writing away on my laptop in a guesthouse. Im in a room looking over the mighty Mekhong river, a river that starts somewhere in the Himalayas, then flows through several countries to get to [...]

*WARNING CONTAINS GRAPHIC CONTENT*
Sorry for the extreme description here, but i figure if your a meat eater like me then you have to think that this thing goes on behind a lot of the meaty meals you eat, if you really can’t face it then maybe you shouldn’t be a meat eater. As for [...]

Its been some time since i wrote here, and even then the last time i did it there was no photographs. So i promised myself that i would write a nice big post, with all ive been doing in this patch of silence, and with lots of photographs.

Im still on an island!! A different one now though, we (Me, Jonathon and April) checked out of our last place on the last island, got a taxi to the port town and sat down at the side of the road with no plan next, there was a boat to mainland in an hour, [...]

Since im now on an island, and life on an island can be quite slow, but none the worse for that, im going to take my time over this post, fewer photo’s but more luuurve!
This picture is from Chang Mai, just before i left, because it was festival time there was a free kick boxing [...]

Its been a few days and a couple of hundred kilometers since my last bunch of photos, i left Pai the beautiful little town, i got really sick there! I had a fever for a couple of days and the shits in a big way for about a week, all gone now, nice and [...]

Hey there, well im still here in Pai, not really got any other plans, just waiting for Dave (me old housemate) to get in touch so i know what he’s doing, as he wants to go to India, and if he goes there, so do I. I think i might go to Chang Mai [...]

Ive done so much in the last 5 days, my legs ache now, and i have a sore ass. Traveled all the way to a small town in the north of Thailand called Pai, got on a train in Bangkok, for 14 or so hours, slept on the train, got off the train on [...]

Yeah thats it, i’ve had enough with Bangkok for the time being, too busy, too stinky, too humid, too many people trying to rip you off, its not so bad at times, but theres times when you can’t be arsed with em.

Here’s a whole bunch more photo’s from the last few days, again, click on them for a larger view

I was walking through a field yesterday, the one near the Royal Palace if you look on the google earth link below, and a couple of Thai guys came up to me trying to sell me bird feed, i refused and carried on walking, but they grabbed my hand and emptied a bag of bird [...]

Im in Bangkok! Its mad hot, stupid humid, and very smelly, and i love it! The Thais are super smiley, and it doesnt seem to have changed here at all. As for the coup, the guy that runs my guest house says less people have been turning up since it, but its [...]

Inside this post you will see lots of pictures of graffiti i stole from another site because i thought they were cool.

I went to see a building in Manchester today that friends of mine are squatting, with the aim of setting it up as a space to exhibit art. Its coming along very well, its such an amazing building. Im in awe of whats going on there.

Heres some amazing and beautiful pictures i found on the NASA website.

Im well into taking pictures of insects, ive got a really good macro lens, i get a massive kick out of getting a good picture of an insect.  Heres a few of my favorite ones.

The days get shorter, the good weather is over, homeless people wrap up in the comforting warmth of heroin, sexual libidos die.

I did once have a site that looked like this

creature, sailor, mother, baker, searcher, maker, sneakers, fakers, lookers, takers, alarmists, barmy, flips and jumps. Tramps and stamps, my mother your mother, black men, white men. Camping, sailing, walking, flailing, grounding, landing, crying, trying, come on jack! All alone with no slack. Clouds, clowns, frowns, mounds, pounds and grounds. Chips, [...]

Well, i deleted everything, it was all boring me, i hated to look at it, took me ages to write it all and i thought it was all piss. (the pictures were innocent, innocent as hell) Anyway im starting again, a clean sheet. Soon i will be leaving England to go for a [...]