Travel A Day Circumnavigating the Nanjing City Walls by Mike Pole October 14, 2017 by Mike Pole October 14, 2017 In Nanjing I waited for the Goldilocks time, not too cold, not too hot – to walk the entire Nanjing City Walls. The … Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Travel In the Footsteps of Anthony Bourdain: Restaurant CoCoCo in St Petersburg, Russia by Mike Pole October 4, 2017 by Mike Pole October 4, 2017 A meal in CoCoCo, a top St Petersburg restaurant? One featured in an episode of TV chef Anthony Bourdain? Would I be … Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Travel ‘Woman with nails in both sides of skull’ – the Nanjing Massacre Memorial by Mike Pole September 23, 2017 by Mike Pole September 23, 2017 Arguably, the most shocking part of Iris Chang’s book ‘The Rape Of Nanking’, comes in its Epilogue. During my 12 months living … Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Travel Uganda – Hell-train to Kasese by Mike Pole August 27, 2017 by Mike Pole August 27, 2017 As I lowered my arse out the door of the moving train, with my trousers and undies around my ankles, I saw … Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Travel When Corals Lived in the Mongolian Gobi by Mike Pole August 10, 2017 by Mike Pole August 10, 2017 Corals in Mongolia – is there a better example of dramatic Earth-change?! The Gobi Altai -the mountains flanking the Gobi Desert, are … Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
TravelTravel stories Tourists and War-Graves in Taganrog, South Russia by Mike Pole July 21, 2017 by Mike Pole July 21, 2017 The man in the Taganrog Park spun around and said something at us. The only word I made out was ‘anglesky’ (‘English’)- … Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
TravelTravel stories Nomadic Women’s Underwear – in Greek Tanais on the Russian Don by Mike Pole July 9, 2017 by Mike Pole July 9, 2017 You’ll see the chick with red and green silk bloomers at Tanais… The River Don is one of Europe’s big ones. Even … Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
TravelTravel stories How to see the Porthole Dolmens of Russia’s Caucasus by Mike Pole July 7, 2017 by Mike Pole July 7, 2017 Travelling in Russia last year I got a chance to see some of it’s famous prehistoric ‘Porthole Dolmens’. Now there is a … Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
ClimateTravelTravel stories When Frequent-Flying Becomes Insane-Flying by Mike Pole April 30, 2017 by Mike Pole April 30, 2017 I loved my Singapore Airlines ‘Elite Gold’ card. Suddenly, International airports transitioned from being places where food and drink were wildly overpriced, … Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Forestsre-wilding/walking The Lost Forests of Southland, New Zealand by Mike Pole April 8, 2017 by Mike Pole April 8, 2017 Forests that have disappeared so completely that you would hardly believe they really existed, have long fascinated me. When I left my … Read more 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail