Jeremiah's Strange Times

Its been a very very long time since I've done anything with this blog, and here I am, posting in it anew. Iran's been in the news, and I've been travelling again and so I felt I might as well finish what I started. The following is slightly different - this is mostly a direct transcription from my journals.  Most of the time I feel I need to elaborate (and I have actually done a bit of that here) to change and redraft the text I carry in my bag for most of my life, but in this case (mostly) is seemed good enough, one might even hazard striking the word 'enough' from that last sentence.  I'd barely started talking about Iran when I ceased writing last time, there is a lot more to tell. So enjoy the story of a trip a good few years old.  If you're new to the blog please feel free to look at some of what I've already posted.  Who knows if I'll manage to keep this up so enjoy it while its here! The Buzz and the Beauty Friday the 4th of...

Its been a long time since I wrote anything in this blog of mine.  Of course the times have still remained strange. Times always seem to remain strange anyway.  I'm back in Cork at the moment and once again the future is a terrifyingly open book.  I was tired, so I came home for awhile; I brought along a pile of old journals, they sit alongside me today as I type.  Travel Journals specifically.  The idea was to do something with them at last.  All those words I've scribbled over the years, they ought to be good for something. But first I decided to boot up the old desktop computer in the box room of my home in Cork.  Buried in the infested rattling old hard drive I found the document reproduced below.  It is an account of my first ever travel entry, it makes reference to later events so it can't be a reproduction of the original diary entry (lost long ago in Kilkenny) but I quite like it.  I can't remember why I wrote it, but sti...

On Eoin and I head through the Middle East of 9 years ago.  This blog entry includes the last of our Syrian stories and the entirety of the correspondence detailing our travails in Jordan.  As with the rest of these middle Eastern posts, this contains the emails sent out to my large list of increasingly weary contacts.  Thankfully, at this stage, my writing style has improved somewhat. Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 16:28:58 +0000 Subject: Not so much a pillar of wisdom Hey all Was feeling pretty sick yesterday so the events will be clouded by the runs.  ( ugh)  Anyway, we're in Petra now, in Jordan, another new country.  When I last left ye I was having a fantastic time in Damascus I'll try to catch ye up with the present. We learned the evening before setting of for the Jordanian border that Bosra, a small Syrian backwater with the best preserved amphitheatre in the middle east, which, according to the lonely planet guide it also boa...