Tristram Zedex Eighty One

For those of you who haven’t already seen it on Facebook, here is a video of me having a go on a canyon swing, and then swearing loudly.

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I have updated the below post, ‘Through the Haast Pass and Beyond,’ so it now includes photos of our trip round New Zealand so far, most notably of our treks through and over the Abel Tasman National Park and Franz Josef Glacier, respectively. Enjoy.

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I haven’t updated this blog much in the past week because I don’t have anything interesting to say. New Zealand is not India, a country that inflicts a permanent state of manic depression on it’s visitor. It is not Vietnam, with it’s socialism disguised behind numerous advertising billboards and stock market ticker reels. It’s not […]

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The writing is quite small on this map, but basically so far I’ve visited Cairns (bit dull), Cape Tribulation (beautiful), Port Douglas (quaint), Cairns again (annoyingly we kept having to pass through it to get to other places), Mt. Isa (full of miners), Longreach (desolate but with a good newsagents), Charleville (also desolate but with […]

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The green countryside and high population of sheep has lead New Zealand to be compared with the UK. On my third day in the country, I saw why. Having spent the night at Stuart and Corrina’s, a couple i travelled with in India, Corinna took me to see Mount Eden, a volcano located near their […]

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I was watching Forrest Gump the other week in my Melbourne hostel (that’s seeing the world, baby) and it struck me how many things go over one’s head as a child viewer. For example, the fact that Gump’s childhood sweetheart and eventual wife Jenny dies of AIDS at the end. Admittedly, it’s done with enough […]

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With it barely half time on the American primaries, it’s already a one all draw between Hilary and Obama. With everyone asking the question ‘is America ready for a black or female president?’ they have simultaneously ignored a bigger one. In an article marking my return to American publication Club Relaford and it’s sister blog […]

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I have updated the entry below, titled ‘Sydney Vs Melbourne: An Unfair Judgement,’ with some extra photos of the Blue Mountains and Manly Beach.

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Despite having a love/ hate relationships with cities, Sydney is now officially my favourite in the world. European cities, with their historical architecture, romance and prostitute ridden but homely city squares, are great. Indian cities, like Delhi and Amritsar, represent the armpit of world cities, polluted, cramped, noisy cesspits of hassle and cow shit, punctuated […]

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