Mmmmm….. Bacon!
DUSHANBE — I confess that I love junk food. In particular, salty snacks like potato chips and salted nuts.
But, why oh, why? Why can’t the whole world love the same junk?
It seems that there is no universal taste for snack foods. Except, perhaps chocolate, although people in this part of the world seem willing […]
Morten’s Irish Pub is where all the cool kids hang out — and so do I.
DUSHANBE — It turns out everyone in Dushanbe who is not Tajik, and many of those who are, is Irish.
At least that would appear to be the case at Morten’s Irish Pub which, as my Irish luck would have it, […]
The Indian Mynah has descended en masse onto the trees outside my window. © Rajiv Lather
DUSHANBE — Waking up this morning, and every morning for the past week and a bit, I am surrounded by the sound of a torrential rain fall. The noise washes over me and it’s hard to believe I am not soaking […]
Yes, that is the floor you can see past my now scrawny legs through my new clown pants.
DUSHANBE — In an ode to the obvious, I must say that it is amazing how much weight you can lose when you stop eating.
After an almost orgasmic meal at La Grande Dame restaurant in Dushanbe - where I […]
If only we could fly… and had brought spare engines for this old Soviet Hip helicopter, the trip to Kunduz may have ended more productively. Mark and translator Firdavs pose for a picture before the bad news arrived.
DUSHANBE – The dateline on this post should be Feyzabad. But it’s not. Here’s why…
For four weeks, I’ve been banging my […]
Despite the best of preparations, we made it to Kunduz, but no farther. Read tomorrow’s post as well to find out why.
DUSHANBE — I spent most of Wednesday evening packing for my trip to Feyzabad, Afghanistan where I am in sh’Allah going to meet with the German Police instructors we are using to deliver the basic […]
DUSHANBE — At 8:00 AM this morning, I was just hopping into the shower — and regretting that I’d used my lazy morning to sleep in a bit because the water pressure was very, very bad. To the early bird goes the water pressure it seems. I slept in because we were moving offices — […]
DUSHANBE — The “Afghan” arrived in Dushanbe in the midst of lunchtime today. This strong southerly wind, called Afghanka here, has been blowing ever since — bringing with it what must surely be a substantial portion of Afghanistan. By 4:30 PM, when I was walking home, quite a bit earlier than usual, from work visibility […]
DUSHANBE – It’s Sunday, November 11 here in Dushanbe and for the first time in years, I don’t even have a poppy with me. I forgot to bring one from Canada, despite the gross overweightness of my luggage, and they are not available here. For many of the past years, I was privileged to lay […]
DUSHANBE – I haven’t posted for a bit due to a combination of travel, workload, illness, fatigue and technology challenges. Not, necessarily, in that order.
I have some catching up to do.
In the meantime, I read an excellent post on Heather Yaxley’s blog which echoes many comments I’ve made in the past about public relations practitioner’s […]