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July 28, 2016 – 4:36 pm

Boyz n the wood

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June 24, 2016 – 1:11 pm

Sleep drawing

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October 16, 2015 – 9:35 pm

The list of my problems

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February 13, 2013 – 9:37 pm

iMoan

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August 23, 2012 – 10:53 am

Houmous anecdote

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Taiga Forest

September 29, 2011 – 9:43 am

In Tomsk we met someone called Gregory who got together some of his mates with carrier bags full of vodka bottles, and took us into the Taiga Forest to murder us for a barbecue.

Travel sketchbook diary, London-Singapore by train: Russia: Taiga forest

Gregory turned out to be the perfect host, guiding us back out of the forest in the small hours.

Travel sketchbook diary, London-Singapore by train: Russia: Tomsk

The trouble with staying in hostels is that you get on a kind of treadmill, meeting only other tourists. (We tried to correct this by using the couchsurfing website.) I wish I’d done more cartoons like the one below, but the trains and buses were too clattery to draw in.

Travel sketchbook diary, London-Singapore by train: cartoon of international hostellers