Trying to make a phone call in Tibet

At the Kirey Hotel, the most expensive place to stay in the old town, I met a charming Tibetan who had been educated at an English-style private school in the Indian city of Chandigargh. Hundreds of thousands of Tibetans had …

Tea in Heinrich Harrer’s house – podcast

  This is chapter 27 from the eBook version of Tibet memoir. Podcast above, text version below. Hope you like it.  I was surprised that they let me back into the Pemba truck stop and even more surprised when they …

You can’t get a job here! Podcast

  This is chapter 26 from my memoir 9 Months in Tibet. If you click on the thing above you can hear me reading it — it takes less that four minutes — or you can read the text below …

A three dog attack — PODCAST

  This is my second podcast. I got some encouraging feedback to my first podcast and decided to do another one from my Tibet memoir. I’d be so grateful if you would leave a comment under here. Feedback from readers...

Bird Island

This is Chapter 24 from my Tibet memoir in which I walk into the wilderness, stay a night with nomads and find a surprising level of comfort in a cave… The road into the mountains got steeper and the truck …