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Thailand:
The Bus Toilet Incident (Johan
Sällström)
 Some
real funny shit from Thailand.
Nomads
of Ararat (Lee Ridley)
 Making
friends with the Kurds of East Turkey... and their guard dogs. Some
spectacular photographs too!
Border
Towns: First Foreign Journalist in Blaine (Sean Rorison)
 Sean
Rorison braves the environs of Blaine, Washington. Somebody eventually
had to do it, though we are not quite sure why!?
Rorison, if you read
this, call us... soon.
Rugabo
Revisited (Lee Ridley)
 A
follow up piece to Lee's June article on the mountain gorillas of
Zaire.
It seems that
African politics has also taken its toll on the animal kingdom.
Southern
Comfort (Lee Ridley)
 Polo's
Bastards' own 'swamp thing' checks out the digs in Lousiana USA.
A photographer's paradise by the look of things!
Insults
in Pakistan (Luke Brown)
 At
least we know our editor is well equipped to handle this situation.
The
Scams of Dakar (Sean Rorrison)
 It
happens to the best of us.
Welcome
to Equatorial Guinea (Tejas Jones)
 Anyone
Know of A Nice Job on a Tropical Island Somewhere?
Azad
Jammu and Kashmir interrupted (Luke
Brown)
 Never
one to stay idle long, our man is unleashed on the unsuspecting
natives of Kashmir.
Rugabo
Of Sabinyo (Lee
Ridley)
 A
boxing match with a 500lb gorilla in Central Africa is always going
to present problems...
No,
thank you. (Luke
Brown)
 Little
did we realise that cricket was the cure to the ills of the world.
Luke Brown joins the lofty ranks of fast bowlers at Pakistan's Multan
Street Cricket Club (the MSCC to those of us in "the know.")
Riding
the Iron Chicken Bus (Luke
Brown)
 Our
hero endures the best that Pakistan's engineers and drivers have
to offer.
India
to Pakistan: Gateway to Paradise
(Luke Brown)
 The
unfolding adventures of our fearless editor!
Zaire
(DRC) (Lee
Ridley)
 There's
nothing like a collapsing national currency to bulk up your wallet
/ pocket / wheelbarrow.
Chasing
Volcanos in Sicily (Shamus
Sillar)
 Now
what can we throw on the lava next? Photos from Mount Etna.
Israel:
Israel in the Golan (Sean
Rorison)
 Syria
lost the Golan Heights as a result of the 1967 war. As of yet there
are no clear signs of an end to the dispute. Sean Rorison returns
four years after his first visit.
72
Hours in India (Meg
Smaker)
 Ripped
off, beaten up, sick and an almost knife-fight. And you thought
not much could happen in 72 hours!
Monkey
Dancing and Beggar Kings (The
Spamhog)
 Don't
ignore the beggars, it's bad karma.
Uganda:
Sese Islands, Lake Victoria
(Lee Ridley)
 If
only it was as easy as just going down the road to the bank. Read
More
Northwest
Frontier Province in Pakistan by William
B. Plowman
 Check
out the new photos.
Nicaragua:
Old friends and former enemies (Piedro
Cane)
 A
brief work assignment in the capital, Managua, with some interesting
colleagues.
Mindanao,
Philippines: Ghosts of WW2
(Spamhog)
 A
dive in the seas outside of Davao, in search of the wreck of a shot-down
WW2 Japanese "Zero" aircraft.
Central
Africa: Beyond Bujumbura (Lee
Ridley)
 Having
just missed an axe swinging maniac, the plan was to, as soon as
possible, catch a ferryboat out of Burundi to Zambia. Plans change.
Sweden:
Icehotel
(Anders Porter)
 "Hej,
Anders... vi har..." Remembering how feeble my Swedish is,
he switches to English. "It's minus 5 right now. Let's go make
some snow."
Prizren,
Kosovo: A Day in September
(Luke Brown)
 An
election rally in 1997. Bombings in 1999. 2002?
US:
Little Fantasy Land
(Luke Brown)
 He
said that the waters would 'comfort you and heal all your scars';
he called this place his 'little fantasy land.'
Bucharest:
Spurned Latin Lover
(Sean Rorison)
“Romania's
people and civilization are locked in a story of tragic Romance;
it is a classic Shakespearian tragedy of lust, betrayal, and an
excessively violent climax.”
Morocco:
The road to Merzouga
(Lee Ridley)
“I
told him I thought Muslims were not allowed to drink alcohol, that
Allah forbids it. "Ah, yes," he said, "but I will
only drink it at night. Allah will not see."
Lapland:
TheCase for Global Warming
(Lee Ridley)
I would
say nobody warned me about how cold it was going to be. Only they
did.
Panama:
The Americas' Best Kept Secret
(Piedro Cane)
"I
arrived in Panama in 1987 as a 21-year-old paratrooper in the US
Army at Fort Kobbe."
More
pics from William B Plowman
 A
trip to the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan.
The
Tourist Trap (Fiona
Sutton)
 Tourism
is good for us, but is it good for our destinations? Here at Polo's
Bastards we cannot be accused of shirking the big questions, dammit.
Central
Africa: Borders
(Lee Ridley)
"In
all the time we had been in Rwanda there had been no signs of tension
and no-one we'd spoken to had even implied that a day out in the
mountains might not be the safest thing. This day things kicked
off big time…"
Lebanon:
Letting Go
(Sean Rorison)
"The
sights are minor and relatively unspectacular; Beirut's true intrigue
lies in its ambience as a tired postwar ghost town desperately trying
to regain footing."
Jordan:
Nuts about Hospitality
(Rob Wood)
An
Archaeologist is usually good at digging holes; this, however, shouldn’t
extend beyond the realms of an archaeological dig.
Albania:
A bumpy ride
(Luke Brown)
“One's
first impression of Albania is that of a huge junkyard imitating
a country.”
Laos:
Lao A Go-Go (Anders
Porter)
"Lao
Lao, to the uninformed taste bud, is a whiskey made from rice and
is actually quite smooth… after about twelve shots."
Vietnam:
Final scam (Gavin
Lees)
"In
theory the plan was as follows. Bus to Vinh, arrive at 2am, wait
for a local bus to Cau Treo, cross the border and then take a local
jumbo truck to Nam Keut. God, I wish it had been that easy."
Ukraine:
The Promise (Thomas Noël)
 "If
you come to me at Rosh Hashanah, recite the Tikkun HaKlali and share
a siddakah in my name, I will save you from the deepest of hells"
- Rabbi Nachman of Breslov
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