Buy a fan. They are cheap, don't use much energy, don't dry the air out, unlike aircon, and at the "heatwave" temps in this country are adequate unless you're living in a greenhouse. Also t… (View Post)

I went to Uzbekistan a few years back and really enjoyed it. I don't know what your attention span is like, but I'd say both Samarkand and Bokhara are worth another day - Khiva less so. I found the f… (View Post)

The EU already has something sort of like that with its Association Agreements, e.g. with Georgia. They could doubtless be developed further, but of course the EU would be very reluctant to allow cou… (View Post)

I've just come back from ten days in Montenegro. Apart from being marred by various small frustrations like cheating taxi drivers and triple digit temperatures in Podogrica, it was an improbably fasc… (View Post)

OK, now for some Saturday morning entertainment. Against stiff competition, this is probably the most laughable conspiracy theory I've read online, certainly in a while. Other than the comic idiocy o… (View Post)