Exploring London’s Underground Heritage Simon Waters I recently joined those few Londoners who can say they have visited every tube station in London. Even better, I was able to record the exterior of each station building, use every entry and exit, and to walk every foot of every platform, staircase, booking hall and corridor. ThisContinue reading “Tube Daze”
Category Archives: Non-Fiction
Welcome
India, Greenpeace, Congo, Sahara Welcome to Writesimon.com I spent most of my life seeking adventure; from hitch-hiking alone to India when I was 16, to working with Pygmy peoples in Cameroon and the Congo. I managed Greenpeace’s direct actions from their founding office in Vancouver, climbed in the Himalayas, and Mexico, travelled in China andContinue reading “Welcome”
Time Bargains: Making Time To Get Fit
There is an easy way to get regular exercise; and it can be done in no time at all! find out about a revolutionary idea to get fit and do at least 30 minutes exercise each day at little or no cost in time!
Climbing in the Rain
The Case for All-Weather Climbing 1735 words/15 minutes “In the Golden Age of climbing, before the ascendency of the rock jock, no climber worth his salt would allow a little rain to deprive him of a days outing. A pint, or six, at the end of a day on the rock is to be encouraged.Continue reading “Climbing in the Rain”
Emei Shan
Climbing China’s sacred mountain and Buddha’s fire 15 minutes I was visiting Taiwan in the spring of 1983, when I first heard rumours that China was open to travellers, but nobody had met anyone who had actually been there. When I got to Hong Kong, I asked around at the hostel, and was shown theContinue reading “Emei Shan”
A Hard Rain Over (the other) China
2000 words/15 minutes [After a year running a youth project in Canada’s NWT…where I lived in an uninsulated cabin in temperatures of -40c, I was travelling around the world, in 1983. I got a crack at being a journalist again, and this time, I actually sent off some articles.] Slightly smaller than Switzerland, Taiwan liesContinue reading “A Hard Rain Over (the other) China”
Meeting Jacques Ngoun
I first met Jacques Ngoun, a Bagyeli Pygmy from south Cameroon, at a IUCN run forest conservation conference, on my first visit to Cameroon in February 1999.
Club Ideal Daze
Cameroon’s premiere spot for the savvy traveller 2760 words/15 minutes I went to Cameroon in January 1999 to attend a conference in the capital Yaounde. Or more accurately, I went to a conference in Yaounde to get into Cameroon. Cameroon doesn’t encourage visitors, and so getting a visa to Cameroon requires an invitation from aContinue reading “Club Ideal Daze”
Pygmy Health Project part 3
I was a refugee from the fighting in Goma, and the threatened attack on Bukavu, temporarily settled in a friendly Rwandan NGO just across the border in Cyangugu. But the project was in ruins. We had been driven out of Minova by the M23 rebel assault on Goma, and my colleague and friend Jean Claude had had to travel into rebel held Goma to pick up his two year old daughter. I was at a loss, as I was thousands of miles from home, and yet still a half dozen of miles away from my colleagues
Bambela, Etogo, Zali
Naming our daughter among the Ewondo 1700 words/12 minutes Felix with Judith and la belle mere A few weeks after my daughter was born, in the Central hospital in Yaounde, the capital of Cameroon, Judith and I prepared to register her birth at the town hall. Having a baby in Cameroon is not as simpleContinue reading “Bambela, Etogo, Zali”
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