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Fun & Games in Kyrgyzstan
“On arrival, we finally struggled through Security, collected our goody bags (Kyrgyz flag, orange baseball cap, four glowing sticks to wave, programme of events), and took our seats in the stadium. We had…
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Iraklia Diary (Best of WH)
“Someone has gone to a great deal of trouble to make Iraklia walker-friendly. I set off to climb the island’s peak, Mount Papas (420 meters, or 1386 feet). If that doesn’t sound high,…
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Voyage to Cycladic Donoussa
“Donoussa had no roads until the 1950s. The Greek state gave the island funds to join the port at Stavros with the island’s two other main communities—Mersini on the south-east coast and Kalotaritissa…
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International Truth Day (Best of “Hubris”)
The Polemicist By Michael House LONDON England—(Weekly Hubris)—December 19, 2016—Not one of my readers in 20 (assuming I have 20) will know about the wonderful UK radio comedy show of the 1960’s…
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Front-Page News in the UK: Bad to Worse
“The atrocities of March served to take off our front pages here in the UK headlines from the worst week Prime Minister David Cameron has had since he took office. Things had got…
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F*#k The Plebs: Let’s Party!
“’F*#K The Plebs: Let’s Party!’ should be the next election slogan for the Conservative Party in Britain, whether under Dickensian villain George Osborne or Boris the Buffoon Johnson, pig-poker David Cameron having signified…
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Kashmir: Magic in Two Movements
“During those three weeks, I: met two kings and dined in their palaces; spent the night in one palace; watched a devil-dance in a Buddhist monastery; paid $100 for a beautiful made-to-measure suit…
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Iraklia Diary
Polemicist on Holiday By Michael House, FRGS Michael House, recently named a Fellow of The Royal Geographic Society, characterizes himself as “a criminal defence barrister, traveler and travel writer who lived in Greece…
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End Another Pointless War: On Drugs
The Polemicist by Michael House, FRGS Prohibition didn’t work with alcohol and it’s not working with drugs.” KINGS SUTTON England—(Weekly Hubris)—3/19/12—A brave and wise senior police officer has called for the decriminalization of…
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A Town like Addis, Xmas Without Xmas & Other Ethiopian Adventures, Part 3
The Polemicist by Michael House, FRGS KINGS SUTTON England—(Weekly Hubris)—2/19/12— Day 8, 25th December, continued. In the evening, after a 360 kilometre drive, we arrived at the Mountain View Hotel, Lalibela. At 8,745…