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Title and Date Location  
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Ryde, United Kingdom
journal-entry
WE GOTTA GET OUTTA THIS PLACE... Oct 11 '76 
"As if in some surreal movie we drifted like homeless ghosts through the streets"
Amsterdam, Netherlands
journal-entry
THE 'MAGIC BUS' - 36hrs to Istanbul Oct 16 '76 
"This was no longer the Europe we knew. We appeared to have entered another world."
Munich, Germany
journal-entry
ACROSS TURKEY - By Bus Oct 18 '76 
"The journey immediately began badly, with the driver reversing the van into the path of a passing truck"
Istanbul, Turkey
journal-entry
HASSLES IN IRAN Oct 27 '76 
"They could have dumped our bodies in the middle of nowhere and no one would have been any the wiser..."
Teheran, Tehran
journal-entry
HERAT, AFGHANISTAN - A Leap Back In Time. Oct 30 '76 
"Herat was still struggling to get into the twentieth century."
Herat, Herat
journal-entry
KANDAHAR Nov 03 '76 
"the landscape was vast and empty desert punctuated by an occasional mud-walled settlement or dark-tented nomad camp"
Kandahar, Kandahar
journal-entry
KABUL - Black Hash & Dysentery Nov 04 '76 
"..we caught site of the cockroaches, they completely covered the walls and ceiling.."
Kabul, Kabul
journal-entry
Paghman, Kabul
journal-entry
PAKISTAN - Culture Shock Nov 12 '76 
"Walking back to the hotel along an almost deserted street we heard a loud ‘pop’ and the ricochet of a bullet close by."
Rawalpindi, Punjab
journal-entry
LAHORE - Welcome to the Nightmare Nov 13 '76 
"she realised that her jacket was gone, along with all of her money"
Lahore, Punjab
journal-entry
INDIA AT LAST! Nov 15 '76 
"Old Delhi, a labyrinth of tiny lanes lined with three hundred year old crumbling mansions now covered with rusting signs and electricity cables"
Amritsar, Punjab
journal-entry
DELHI - An Assault on the Senses Nov 17 '76 
"tiny snot-nosed, barefoot children with pleading eyes held out their hands and tugged at the heartstrings"
New Delhi, India
journal-entry
VARANASI - Holy Madness Nov 24 '76 
"a mouldy-fleshed human head floated by, bobbing up and down in the murky water"
Varanasi, India
journal-entry
NEPAL - Over the Hills & Far Away Nov 28 '76 
"The scariest moments were when we would meet a truck coming from the opposite direction and the bus had to inch its way to the very edge of the road to let it pass"
Kathmandu, Nepal
journal-entry
KATHMANDU - Rats the Size of Cats Nov 29 '76 
"Suddenly, we were approached by a very large, pink-faced rhesus macaque with enormous, dangling crimson testicles and an evil, sharp-toothed grin."
Kathmandu, Nepal
journal-entry
TO SIMLA Dec 10 '76 
"People were appearing out of nowhere as the word spread that an odd-looking white couple was walking up and down the station"
Simla, Himachal Pradesh
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