Author Archives: dgm

As I tweeted earlier today, I suddenly realised that it’s around 40 years since I wrote my first code – as part of a maths option in high school. The programming language was Algol68 and the code was a hello … Continue reading →

I’ve previously written about Alexander Burnes and his Scottish connections. Burnes was of course a participant in the ‘Great Game’, the jousting for power in Asia between Britain, through its Indian Empire, and Russia with it’s expansion East. There is a tendency to focus on … Continue reading →

In the course of reading about nineteenth century travellers in Central Asia, I came across Alexander Burnes. His story is well known, and I won’t repeat it here but the thing that piqued my interest is that he originally came … Continue reading →

Travel is quite often not about the big in your face experiences but about those quiet discoveries. Tomato sauce with Chilli There’s nothing quite like the moment you discover that taste of a rich ketchup with a little bite of … Continue reading →

I originally planned to make an ebook out of my various Sri Lanka posts, in much the same way as I did with our Laos trip. However, half way through the process I realised that after editing, I only had … Continue reading →

From Kandy we went on to Rangala, a guest house in the tea growing hill country behind Kandy. The minivan colecting us was late, stuck in traffic. When we phoned to see what was happening we were told that the … Continue reading →

Yala After Mirissa, it was on to Yala, in the far south east of the island. Yala is pretty much nothing, an epanse of scrubby forest, but it is a massive nature reserve, and the last place you can see, … Continue reading →