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paulclammer

  1. Off to Paris today, hurrah!
  2. Haitian poetry under the stars, by @teqminsky bit.ly/p148nj #Haiti #poetry
  3. Tri-lingual anthology (PDF): "How to Write an Earthquake: 15 Haitian Writers Respond" is.gd/4yI4Ls via @bintbattuta #Haiti
  4. RT @LindleyHelen [New post] Gender in #Haiti - Problems, Solutions and Mainstreaming bit.ly/p0mBCk
  5. @RichardTrillo Going to Paris tomorrow & feeling worried – France looks v.risky from those stats! But nice safe #Haiti next month. #Phew
  6. @travelfish About 50/50 split in my experience of writing for LP.
  7. @edentravels Currently packing my books to go into storage, and came across Monica Whitlock's 'Beyond the Oxus'. Assume you've read?
  8. Was offline yesterday, but a very belated Eid Mubarak...
  9. @mrdavidwhitley Burl Ives, 'Venezuela'. Simply beautiful. bit.ly/p4UYkx #RTWplaylist
  10. Beautiful RT @BibliOdyssey BLOG POST: The Memoirs of Babur bit.ly/pZFxK9 (illuminated MS w/ Mughal miniatures) via @WillNoel
  11. RT @rememberthegoat Hope yet for African Queen gunboat on Lake Tanganyika bbc.in/qPeW50
  12. 'The Framing of al-Megrahi' by Gareth Peirce (in @LondonReview) bit.ly/nme4Nf #LongRead #Libya
  13. Herat-Mazar highway has been marked on #Afghanistan maps since the 70s. Would be great if actually existed. #ThreeDayDesertRoadFromHell
  14. "Studies underway for creation of rail corridor from Herat to Mazar-i-Sharif" <- Might be useful to build an actual road first. #Afghanistan
  15. First major Afghan #railway opens (Uzbek border to Mazar) bit.ly/p51Xpl via @saadmohseni #Afghanistan #trains
  16. @matthewteller @NickRedmayne Often think that idea of getting off beaten track easily replaced by just looking at actual track more closely.
  17. RT @NickRedmayne Strap a camera to @matthewteller's head, let him loose in #Jordan, this is what you get... wonderful bit.ly/nlE30F
  18. Putting his money where his mouth is, @mrdavidwhitley opens an honesty survey about monetising #travel blogs: bit.ly/raDW99