Author: Neal

All that way – a temple at full moon

Post author By Neal
Post date January 5, 2015

You go all that way, Weary from the subcontinent’s humid heat Crammed into lop-sided buses, With just enough space to breathe. Still more hours travelling to the next depot __And then further, ____Deeper into the country, Leaving the safe tropical shore behind, Into the hot, silent and dusty expanse. Then as the darkness drops you […]

Journeys

Pamplona clash

Post author By Neal
Post date November 20, 2014

Down in the narrow streets and in the narrow bars they’re all crammed in drinking tinto and eating pinchos and coming up with glorious ideas: Like having their own country. Like independence from not one country but two! In those narrow streets they drape flags from their balconies. In those narrow streets they await the next annual […]