There are many reasons why people choose to eat gluten free. All the way from being trendy, to a full-blown allergy. As a celiac, I do not have an allergy, but eating gluten causes serious damage to my intestines, pain and other less palatable symptoms. When I am “glutened”, I like to think I know it (even if the research suggests it’s unlikely) because the symptoms are so manifest. But how can you travel all around the world, and be…
I am writing this in America. In New Hampshire to be precise. And being more precise than America is very important – this country is huge. Last month my wife and I drove for what felt like an age, driving on reasonably good roads westwards towards and into Vermont. And despite driving for ages, Google Maps only welcomed us to one new State. And the state we went into, and the state we left, are both among the tiniest. Two…
Much to the annoyance of all around me, I have been making mental (and verbal) lists of all the things that we’re doing for the last time. For example on Sunday we made our last trip on Thai public transport, last night was our last night spent in this apartment and this blog post is likely to be the last one written in Thailand. As I am writing this, I am looking around our bare apartment which we have cleaned…