Mon 8 Oct 2007
Tue 2 Oct 2007
Burma is without doubt one of the most fascinating countries I’ve ever visited. It’s taken me a while, (3 months !) to edit down the gigabytes of photos and screeds of text I wrote about the place but I’m finally there. Well, that’s the irony - I’m not there, I’m now here. Scotland. And I’ve been glued to the BBC website following the protests over the last week with a mixture of excitement and great anxiety. I sincerely hope that the Burmese poeple can win their country back, without great loss of life. Few countries have suffered for as long. I’d love to say I detected the smell of revolution in the air but as my now out of date post says, I felt quite the opposite. No-one I spoke to was able to picture anything but a grim staus quo. Yet a collective dream seems to have come to life. In the interests of giving much needed exposure to a country that seems well off the West’s radar, and at best may contribute to that ethereal quality we call “public pressure”, here’s my tuppence: (more…)