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This is England Winter Country Town Empty Skies When cycling the cold roads under these skies with a bottle of blackcurrant juice and a banana I listen to a playlist on my iPod. Rhythmic music works best since it segues with cycling cadence. "Twilight" is one of my favourites. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oayrvqJgWXU‎ Twilight by Frankie Beverly and Maze Current reading : Teach Us To Outgrow Our Madness by Kenzaburo  Oe The Shining by Roger Luckhurst The Interrogation by Jean Marie Gustave Le Clezio Listening to:  My God is Blue by Sebastien Tellier Cold, bright meadow Winter River It is difficult to describe what one feels looking at a scene like this (without breaking into nature poetry). So I'll let Benjamin Britten do it with the help of a precocious American child. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF1jYAQr-FU Young Persons Guide to the Orchestra Op 34 from the Henry Purcell. If you

Welcome to readers from Luxembourg Malacca, Malaysia Malacca arrived as a moment of joy after the rat-infested promontory of Kota Bharu in the north-east of the country. The overnight bus doubled up as meat locker. Icy air-conditioning combined with movies played all night at ear-splitting volume. And now the morning. Walking into Malacca in a daze. In Kota Bharu the rats came out at sunset. They overran the town. The size of toy dogs they lumbered up to piles of rotting vegetables left over from the market. These rats were corpulent, overfed, languid, the sign that they had no predators. I would not have been surprised to see them smoking cigars together. The Straits of Malacca are the longest in the world (500 miles) connecting the Indian Ocean with the South China Sea and the Pacific Ocean.  Malacca, or Melaka, is a cute town. Low key, pretty. Below is a Malaysian tower mosque in a sunblind street. Kampung Kling mosque, built 1748, is situated

Photo taken by US serviceman. "Vungers Beach" Vung Tau 1967 A 'friendly' Douglas A-1 Skyraider makes a high-speed, low pass directly over US servicemen while they enjoy the waves along Vung Tau Beach, South Vietnam. Welcome to the readers from the Phillipines - Kumusta Bank and Shoal of Time Vietnamese Fortune Cookie 如果愛是答案你回家 If Love is the Answer You're Home Vung Tau Beach The local beach resort from Sai Gon. Nha Trang it is not but people were once again super friendly. See Nha Trang below: http://guerillaction.blogspot.com/2013/07/nha-trang.html Nha trang is still the most visited of my posts on GuerrillaZ. The most relaxing place I have ever visited. But this is Vung Tau. Super shy son, proud father Father had to chase son around for fully five minutes to get this shot. Vung Tau had something of the English seaside; deck chairs, mucky sand and a general scruffiness. The hyd

London St. Pancras International Station. The Champagne Bar next to the Paris train at St. Pancras One of my favourite places in London is St. Pancras Station. There are enough bars and cafes here to meet people and hangout. The station has a level of romance you might associate with trains departing for Paris Gare du Nord (and Brussels). Two hours and your are sipping chaud Suchard chocolat at the Gare du Nord brasserie. It is easy to become blasé about trips to Paris so I won't and move onto London. The St. Pancras Concourse Okay so it was raining this time. but in a maritime climate you gotta expect inclement weather. Anyway inside the station you are dry and it is a thing of beauty. Vast quantities of pound sterling went into restoring and remodelling this station back to former glories. I took a tube to Leicester Square and walked the short distance to the National Gallery which houses room after room of nationally and internationall

Welcome to readers from Guyana, Tunisia and Brazil.  Thanks so much for visiting GuerillaZ there have been so many visitors today.   Đồng bằng Sông Cửu Long Mekong Blues If Thanet in Kent, England is in need of regeneration then the Mekong Delta south of Ho Chi Minh City is in need of the same treatment and some more besides . Music that comes to me as I travel down the Mekong River www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMkmQlfOJDk Air on the G-String is August Wilhelmj's arrangement  of the second movement in Johann Sebastian Bach's Orchestral Suite No.3 in D major, BWV 1068 ‎ I thought of Bach because I am moved by the places I see and the people I meet. Just intoxicated by them. To this effect. Under Grave Skies: the Mekong Region My Tho Most of the images here are taken in and around My Tho. It was, as is my want, sweltering in the Mekong Delta. It turns out that poor Mekong women often marry disadvantaged Koreans in ord

Chateauneuf-du-pape I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough Gleams that untravelled world,  whose margin fades For ever and ever when I move. Alfred Lord Tennyson, Ulysses After stopping at Fiona's in Paris I drove us down here in eight hours.  We stayed in a village just outside Avignon called Bedarrides. We rented a 3 bedroom townhouse with a deep balcony and a roof terrace. It cost £500/$750 a week. The people were so friendly in Bedarrides that they shouted greetings up to us every morning and every evening. Bon jour! Bon soir monsieur! The house came equipped with three bicycles. I may visit again next spring before I travel back to the Far East. Avignon With Dolly and Fiona appreciating Avignon cathedral in the sun Chateauneuf-du-pape village The sun-drenched vineyards we cycled past every day A Chateauneuf label I have a couple of bottles of this Chateauneuf blanc, quite a rare wine,