From our own correspondent…

A very good friend of mine, who shall henceforth be known as Bazz, and with whom I share a similarly cynical outlook on life does, on an occasional basis, do some work under the auspices of the United Nations in various places around the world that are not generally regarded as being on the tourist trail.

Whilst in said countries he is prone to penning missives on life as he sees it in these places and distributing them to a few friends, one of whom is, I am thankful to say, me. He has kindly given me permission to publish them here for others to read.

For the sake of clarity, copyright for these remains with him and anyone who wishes to exceed the bounds of fair usage is politely asked to make contact with me before doing so in order that permission can be sought.

The first of those that I have should appear shortly and the intention is post them all over the next few weeks.

Happy reading.

5 Comments

  1. Oswald Thake says:

    I hope you do, M.G. I’m sure these will be very interesting.

  2. Furor Teutonicus says:

    Look foreward to them.

  3. john77 says:

    Selective viewpoint based on the limited amount that a single honest individual sees is far preferable to a selective viewpoint based on what some despot (be he Murdoch or Ho Chi Minh) allows to be published.
    I shall be grateful for the opportunity to read them.
    I spent a few years while refusing to become middle-aged working in “transition economies” and found things considerable different from what I had been given to expect, most notably the people who were far nicer than I had any right to expect to a foreigner who (while expert at my speciality) was often incompetent at daily life in their environment – e.g. I found struggling to buy bread and cheese with an English accent very frequently triggered a volunteer out of nowhere (or the queue behind me) to translate for me.

  4. jameshigham says:

    Er, none as yet?