Clippings

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	In Seventh Heaven
	A portly gent sports a multi-coloured fluorescent afro wig that matches the polka-dotted suit he is wearing over a glow-in-the-dark neon pink shirt. He carries a giant inflatable blue plastic guitar as he strides purposefully towards the stadium. Behind him, two gents have ransacked a fancy dress . . .
	[Read Clipping] Date: January 21st, 2006

	To Hell and Back. And back again.
	‘Three and half cups of rice? I had that with my curry last night,” said a friend of mine when I told him of my latest adventure. As part of the research for a book – part military history, part travelogue – I was travelling with Paul Pilkington whose father served in the British Army in World Wa . . .
	[Read Clipping] Date: November 13th, 2005

	Perfumes of Rarotonga
	Nothing says paradise and romance like the gentle waft of tropical floral scents jasmine, frangipani, pandanus or vanilla rising on a warm sea breeze. Like lovers, they have, become inextricably intertwined. The allure has not been lost on the Polynesians, who have been making floral per . . .
	[Read Clipping] Date: September 11th, 2005

	Need Thrills? Cross Siberia the Genghis Khan Way!
	Only five hours my 7621 kilometer adventure the story began to write itself. We were enjoying late-night camaraderie in the Wild West-like dining car (so hazy you couldn’t make out the ‘no smoking’ sign on the wall) when, at the next dinette, a Mongolian trader – severe face sculpted by . . .
	[Read Clipping] Date: August 6th, 2005

	Loud and Proud!
	They have burned the retinas of many an office party lover and avid beachgoer. Stu Lloyd traces the colourful history of the Hawaiian shirt, 70 years old next month. What do Easy Rider Goes Bananas, Tequila Mockingbird, Lady Leah’s Tiki Lounge, Flaming Fish and Maraschino . . .
	[Read Clipping] Date: June 5th, 2005

	Mad as Mongolia at Midnight
	In Part 2 of the Trans-Mongolian rail journey, Stu Lloyd camps out in Genghis Khan’s favourite hunting grounds, discovers there is real nightlife in Ulan Bataar, then reboards the train across the Gobi Desert to Beijing. It is somehow appropriate that I was reading Paul T . . .
	[Read Clipping] Date: May 6th, 2005

	Trading Off the Rails
	The lengthy Trans-Siberian train journey may be famed for its stunning scenery, but for Mongolian merchants it is all in a day's work. Stu Lloyd goes along for the ride ... The hardest part of writing any travel story is coming up with a captivating introduction. Fortunat . . .
	[Read Clipping] Date: May 1st, 2005

	A Trader in our Midst
	In Part One of this story, Stu Lloyd climbs on the Trans-Mongolian train in Moscow, crossing Siberia following the route of Genghis Khan and his marauding Golden Hordes, in the company of Mongolian traders (and the odd lost Norwegian). The hardest part of writing any . . .
	[Read Clipping] Date: March 1st, 2005

	Ladas, Lamas, and Silk Pajamas
	Two names -- Marco Polo and Genghis Khan -- flood the mind with images as exotic as they are evocative. Of intrepid travel, human endeavour, and an unknown, untamed world of Mongol Warriors, plus tea and trinkets from the fabled East. Tea caravans plied their lumbering way north from Peking (Beij . . .
	[Read Clipping] Date: February 1st, 2005

	Underground Movement
	My introduction to the Moscow Metro is violent: I nearly lose a knee as two steel gates snap like a hunter’s trap when I forget to remove my ticket from the turnstile. “All day long, 10 Roubles as long as you don’t go out the station,” says my charming and knowledgeable guide, Rosa, handing me th . . .
	[Read Clipping] Date: January 31st, 2005

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