Richard Stupart

I have liked Matador Network for some time now. I found the site a little over a year ago, looking for more bloggy, personal viewpoint-type stuff ahead of a trip to Southeast Asia. Lonely Planet was, and remains, my authoritative reference for places to sleep and transport links, but I was looking for something else at the time. Beyond the technical details of how to travel to where I was going, I wanted to get that sense of travel before actually getting on the plane. The sense of wonderment at being a tiny little part of a decidedly large and interesting planet. So that was how I ended up, wide-eyed, reading through dozens of pieces of writing from what I came to realise were a whole bunch more people out there in the world driven by the same fundamental desire. Read the rest of this entry »

The last week and a bit I have been in Ethiopia, drinking delicious coffee, wandering around the ruins of castles I had never known Africa capable of possessing and ruminating on the big questions of life, the universe and everything (yes, I brought a towel). On Monday I am leaving Gonder in the north for a tiny spec of a town called Metema for the crossing into Sudan and the final leg north to Cairo.

I promise to post something before then, but for now wanted to show off the first actual piece of writing I’ve had published somewhere that isn’t this blog.

Glow.