Ya Beirut ya haram

My friend texts me on Tuesday evening: there’s been an explosion in Beirut, and I quickly look up the news to see what happened. I think immediately of a violent attack – a sectarian bomb, hitting the country already on its knees in economic collapse, seeking to take advantage of the corona-caused pause in the

cycling to cologne

Two weeks ago I decided to cycle to Cologne to see some friends. I wanted to escape boris-land for a time, and was curious how fast I could do the 730-ish km route. I had cycled to Cologne on the way to Turkey in 2017 and remember that I was too scared to wild camp