All Posts Tagged Tag: ‘danger’
Drugged, abducted, robbed in Russia
Everyone around the tables was friendly. I remember having 3 shots with them and that’s it … until I remember stumbling and falling from weakness on gravel somewhere in the countryside
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Prison visit – La Paz, Bolivia
My solitary Sunday was absorbed by a visit to La Paz’s San Pedro Prison. No, I wasn’t arrested for drugs or acts of public indecency, rather it was a straight forward tourist kinda thing.
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Police hassles in Saddam’s Iraq
A wildfire ignites before my eyes as Iraqis whisper to one another as the murmuring spreads to crackling as more faces turn to stare at me. The speaker is losing his audience – his words no longer of interest as 100s of eyes now stare at me
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A cold beer never felt so freeing – Colombia
A cold beer never felt so freeing; only two hours ago I was busted for grass and sweating it in a Colombian police station …
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Head off the edge – Buenos Aires, Argentina
What jumping out of a plane didn’t achieve for me, jumping out of a moving car in Buenos Aires has … checked back into reality: maybe I’ll stay a while.
Read More →Fake police or corrupt cops – Nairobi, Kenya
Corrupt police or con men? A travel scam in Nairobi, Kenya
Read More →Amid a riot – Jerusalem, Palestine / Israel
I’d crossed the West Bank from Jordan to arrive in Jerusalem two days after the second anniversary of the first Intifada – uprising.
Palestinians had demonstrated in the streets and two young men had been killed by Israeli soldiers. This day I stumbled into the riot that followed the men’s funeral …
