TravelTravel stories Mongolia – Nights under the nine stars of the Pleiades by Mike Pole January 26, 2016 by Mike Pole January 26, 2016 Erik von Daniken’s ‘Chariots of the Gods’ came to my town when I was a kid. Alexandra, New Zealand was perhaps a … Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
ForestsTravel Lebanon – Last Gasp of the Cedar Forests by Mike Pole January 23, 2016 by Mike Pole January 23, 2016 Europe to Australasia is long-haul, and if you are not into heroics, it’s nice to break the journey somewhere. I wonder how … Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Travel Estonia – the Swamp and the language tree by Mike Pole January 16, 2016 by Mike Pole January 16, 2016 Estonia was my first-ever experience of driving, by myself, on the right hand side of the road. I tried to keep it simple. All I … Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Travel Mongolia – “Armour-piercing, mate” by Mike Pole January 8, 2016 by Mike Pole January 8, 2016 “I’ll have to show these to my colleague”. The security guard at Brisbane’s International Airport took the two objects from my bum-bag … Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Travel Turkistan, Kazakhstan, not Tukmenistan by Mike Pole January 5, 2016 by Mike Pole January 5, 2016 I’m not at all sure I remembered when all those ‘stans’ appeared on my radar. Did I know about them before the … Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
SupernaturalTravel Mongolia – The Ghost of Moron by Mike Pole January 2, 2016 by Mike Pole January 2, 2016 It was on the flight back to UIaan Baatar that I remembered the ghost. My field partner, Nyambayar, and I had been … Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Travel Kalimantan, Indonesia – Twenty minutes from death by Mike Pole December 31, 2015 by Mike Pole December 31, 2015 The ‘high-wall’ of a mine has been the undoing of many a geologist (if an opencast mine is targeting something flat and dipping, … Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Travel Mongolia – From Death-threats to a camel-ride by Mike Pole December 29, 2015 by Mike Pole December 29, 2015 It’s March 2009 in Mongolia and there is an ill-feeling along the Gobi Altai. The year before, and some months after the … Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Travel West Timor – Mine of Women and the Palm Wine Bomb by Mike Pole December 12, 2015 by Mike Pole December 12, 2015 West Timor – Mine of Women, and the Palm-Wine Bomb I never thought to see a mine run by women. By why … Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Travel Would you like a beer? – Guests of the Kalimantan Police by Mike Pole November 22, 2015 by Mike Pole November 22, 2015 Roni is a Batak. This is a christian tribe that lives in the Lake Toba area of the otherwise Muslim Sumatra. The Bataks … Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
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