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    • Jupiter’s Travels review at last
    • The Gypsy in Me by Ted Simon, 1997 Penguin
    • Nick Plumb’s Adventure Riding Basics DVD part 1, released 2013
    • Red Tape and White Knuckles: One woman’s motorcycle adventure through Africa: Lois Pryce, 2008, Century Books
    • Charley Boorman – Race to Dakar (DVD)
    • The Road Gets Better from Here: A Novice Rides Solo From the Ring of Fire to the Cradle of Civilisation (Perfect Paperback) by Adrian Scott 2008
    • Uneasy Rider: Travels Through a Mid-life Crisis (Paperback) by Mike Carter
    • Riding with Rilke: Reflections on Motorcycles and Books (Paperback various publishers) by Ted Bishop 2007
  • Reviews of stuff
    • First ride with Keis G601 Heated Touring Gloves
    • DMD T-865: shall I keep it or ditch it?
    • Mosko Moto Tank bags compared – Nomax and Hood
    • Dialing out the pain: mini review of Oxford Lidlock
    • How comfortable should we be camping? Mini review of Helinox Zero chair
    • Sony RX100Va first thoughts
    • Reviewing Mosko Moto Nomax Tank Bag
    • First experience of Klim Carlsbad suit
    • Review TCX Drifter boots
  • My motorcycles
    • My motorcycles: 1 Suzuki Bandit
    • My motorcycles: 2 Triumph Sprint 955i
    • My motorcycles: 3 BMW R1200GS Adventure
    • My motorcycles: 4 BMW R1200GS LC
    • My motorcycles: 5 KTM 790 Adventure
  • The Journeys
    • My first motorcycle trip – 2008 four nights in Germany
    • 2009 Wednesday 22nd April: Off to Denmark via Harwich
    • 2009 Germany Czech Republic and Slovakia by Triumph sprint ST: today is the day I leave
    • Preparing for my first trip on Bertha BMW 1200GS Adventure – 2010 Spain France and more…
    • My trip to Denmark and Sweden starts: September 2012
    • 2011 Biking to Scotland
    • A second staycation on the bike (2021)
    • Leaving for Portugal today: August 2022
    • Norway and the Arctic Circle 2023
    • The trip for 2024 – North Wales
  • Routes and Maps (under development)
  • Links and resources
January 13, 2007 quiet desperation

I hate ‘the news’

I hate the news. I think I always have. For the most part it turns things into shit, into little snippets of entertainment.

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