Tipping Point

• Memories of the road From lizstephens in Tipping Point (37 days old)

  Day 6 Indore to Biaora Had to have my tooth out in Indore. Scariest experience of my life, but had never had a tooth out before. Powercut while it was being done. Emergency generator kicked in. Dru… more

• Notes on the road From lizstephens in Tipping Point (55 days old)

  Very quick update before I have to go to the dentist: Day 1: Colva, Goa to Belgau Shiv drove first, took a scenic shortcut to Ponda which ended up being the long way round. Concerned when we bro… more

• The Start Line, Colva, Goa From lizstephens in Tipping Point (62 days old)

  Arrived in Old Delhi on Sunday and found an american guy who chaperoned me around to have a look at the red fort and an enormous mosque. Went up to the hotel rooftop at sunset and watched hundreds of … more

• Insurance Companies From lizstephens in Tipping Point (70 days old)

  So I called the AA to get travel insurance with them, this is an approximate transcript of the conversation: Me: Just checking that I'm covered for all my scuba diving, what restrictions do you hav… more

• Final Preparations From lizstephens in Tipping Point (72 days old)

  After spending yesterday shouting into the corner of my laptop like a madwoman trying to get the nice Indian lady to hear me over the poor skype connection, I have now rearranged my flight from Delhi … more

• The Rickshaw Run From lizstephens in Tipping Point (170 days old)

  To add to my slightly nutty adventures my friend and I will be undertaking the Rickshaw Run in September. We will be driving 2000 miles in 2 weeks from Goa in India to Pokhara in Nepal in a vehicl… more

• Dahab From lizstephens in Tipping Point (311 days old)

  So in Dahab with the family for Christmas. Divided my time between diving and sitting on a sunlounger watching my family windsurf. Would have been nice to join them but unfortunately I'm pretty much a… more

• Winter Sunshine From lizstephens in Tipping Point (343 days old)

  Off to Dahab in the Red Sea over Christmas with the family. The plan is to get some diving in, and some sunshine. My back is really bad at the moment (long history of back problems) and it doesn't hel… more

• Weather versus Climate From lizstephens in Tipping Point (428 days old)

  How often have you heard on the news that "this flooding cannot be attributed to climate change"? Well this is very misleading, and implies that the flooding was not caused by climate change. Actua… more

• Cambodia From lizstephens in Tipping Point (428 days old)

  Bit of a while since my last post because since I've been back in the UK it has been non-stop sorting my life out! I experienced my first bit of corruption in Cambodia 10 minutes after getting off… more

• Mt. Kinabalu - Poring - Sepilok - KK - Mulu - Angkor Wat From lizstephens in Tipping Point (459 days old)

  Internet has been painfully slow in the last few places I have stayed so sorry for the lack of updates! I succesfully climbed Kinabalu, although the weather was horrific, and at 2.30am when we were… more

• Bohol-Cebu-Manila-Kota Kinabalu From lizstephens in Tipping Point (474 days old)

  I stayed on Panglao Island, just off Bohol from Monday to Thursday. Tuesday I spent diving around Baclisag island. On the dive boat it was me, a japanese guy and the filipino dive crew, which was quit… more

• Sipadan From lizstephens in Tipping Point (479 days old)

  Read through my blog and realised I had written nothing about Sipadan! Sipadan is an island off the coast of Borneo which for you geology/ geography geeks out there is not situated on the continental … more

• Geev me your munee or food! From lizstephens in Tipping Point (479 days old)

  I got up at 5.45 this morning to get a ferry at 7 only to find out they weren't doing a ferry at 7 today! So now I have many hours to kill until the 1.30 boat...zzzzzz. Those of you who know me will a… more

• Dumaguete, Negros Island, Philippines From lizstephens in Tipping Point (483 days old)

  I'm currently in an internet cafe in dumaguete on negros in the philippines, which is a geek cafe with smelly noisy boys playing crap computer games. it smells. im token whitey in town and getting rip… more

• Mees yu awlreddy! From lizstephens in Tipping Point (487 days old)

  Spent 6 night in Koh Phi Phi in the end, stayed in a hostel run by a Germany lady who I had interesting chats with concerning the tsunami and so forth, but that I will save for a later post because my… more

• Koh Phi Phi, Thailand From lizstephens in Tipping Point (494 days old)

  currently sitting in an internet cafe in koh phi phi just before i head off to bed. the main town here is a bit like a themepark for backpackers with bars, restaurants, shops and tourist shops, and ve… more

• It's been a while From lizstephens in Tipping Point (507 days old)

  Things have changed a bit in my life. Big split with long-term boyfriend and I'm leaving my job and Brighton (at the end of this week) to start a PhD back in Bristol in September. Anyhow, enough of th… more

• Breaking ice shelves: giving you a better explanation... From lizstephens in Tipping Point (597 days old)

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7313264.stm Haven't posted for what seems like years, but finally found a story that riled me enough to want to post (see link above). Fantastic that this ki… more

• Playing God with a quick 'climate fix' From lizstephens in Tipping Point (776 days old)

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7014503.stmI'm extremely wary of 'quick fixes' such as the one outlined in the bbc article above. I haven't yet read the full paper in Nature but I … more

• Dot Com Bubble, Disaster Capitalism, are companies now jumping on a climate change bandwagon? From lizstephens in Tipping Point (790 days old)

  The Age of Disaster CapitalismThe above article got me thinking. Climate change has seen a boom in environmental business. Products that perhaps didn't even exist a decade ago are now flooding (ex… more

• If you think education is expensive, try ignorance - Derik Bok (former Harvard President) From lizstephens in Tipping Point (790 days old)

  I've been so fed up with various posts on the internet claiming very dubious facts about climate change that I realised that rather than sitting around and getting angry I should be a little more pro-… more

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