A Gentleman Traveller

Over the years there has been one question that many people always ask when it is reported in the news or elsewhere, that someone has decided to take their own life. The first reaction is typically, oh my god why did they do that? Just like when Robin Williams very sadly took his own life a few years ago, many people around the world were asking this question...WHY? Whilst some were asking the question why would someone do that? and others were trying to analyse why someone would do that...I on the other hand understood why. If you have never considered committing this final act then it would be difficult to to see let alone understand, why someone would even think of it. Sometimes its just life in one shape or another becomes too much to bear and you start to think too much into things. You start to think and you see that perhaps all that has happened to you is due to your own actions...what you did, didn't do and things you wish you could relive. It can be as simple as wher

Just when you thought that the world couldn't get even stranger at all, a few years ago George W. Bush (Jr or Snr take your pick), Dick Cheney, Mr and Mrs Blair and John Prescott led the list of world leaders who you would have thought would have been dropped on their heads at birth, and some of which would make you think; " Thats a face only a mother could love " or " My Gosh they have a face fit for radio". Yet today we have an even greater collection of weirdness to choose from, this list is so large I need to in fact put in a proper bulleted list. I might add that those in this list, make those in the one above seem not only to be attractive but also highly intelligent.... Jeremy Corbyn Donald J. Trump Sadik Kahn  Nigel Farage  Recep Tayyip Erdogan Bernie Sanders Ted Cruz François Hollande Benjamin Netanyahu Now perhaps notable exemption from this list is Vladimir Putin, he is the only one to have succeeded and in a country that is as diffi

Yes...believe it or not this Gentleman Traveller is also on Linkedin...and no I will not tell you what I go under on this network.  What might you ask has brought Linkedin under my scope of criticism now? This would be a good question, its not the network itself it is however the people on it...YES you lot. Now what I dislike intently is the utter rudeness of some people on this platform. I can't tell you how many connection requests I get from people whom I have never met, nor whom don't even have the common courtesy as to message me introducing themselves.  Honestly, what has the world come to when people think; " Oh he / she and I went to the same school, University etc etc whatever I will add them" . These people, (and if you are one them YOU) need to stop doing this and take TWO seconds to stop and think to themselves the following;  "Did I ever speak to this person? Do I even know this person? Was I even at said school or Uni with them at the same ti

So Ladies and Gentlemen, in case you were not aware this Gentleman Traveller was recently involved with a very special someone. Yes for the first time in over a decade this Gentleman Traveller became involved in a relationship of sorts. Until recently that is....which was no fault of my own or of hers, this was without a doubt the strangest break up you could imagine, because the very next day we were watching a movie together in my apartment eating Pizza and Haagen Dazs. Yes the things you do when you have broken up but not typically with the person you have broken up from...I would agree but it was nice I have to admit. Now 2 weeks on I have to quote Byran Adams in is song "When You're Gone": "Baby when you're gone I realise I am in love, things just feel so wrong baby when you're gone" The old saying of you don't know what you've got until its gone rings true here, however the only difference is that she is not gone, she is just no lo

It wasn't u n til recently I had fooled myself into believing that I had my Aspergers under control, it wasn't until this weekend when I realised just HOW wrong I was. Recently, this Gentleman Traveller had met someone and for the first time in many, many years the better part of a decade in fact. Having been alone for the better part of over a decade, this time as been spent as a mixture of learning to love my self. So, in doing this I have gotten so used to being alone and having the company of friends, but also being able to shut myself away from the world. Often doing so at a moment’s notice and with a seconds forethought, it is because I needed it or just because I wanted to hide away and just because I could...in fact more often than not, I have to thank my friends from University for not allowing me to do so (these people I will write about in a separate entry). These amazing and fantastic people did what only true friends can do....not let me get away with SHI

​ As much as I admire the courage and the act of the performance of the age old Circus Spectacle that is the Lion tamer. Seeing these most noble of animals these kings of the African Savannah, being caged and being used to put on a show...breaks my heart and I cannot in good conscience sit here in this Circus and not feel utterly heartbroken for these poor animals my eyes tear up for them. From my seat I could see that these lionesses we being crammed into what can only be called an entrance tunnel. At least eight to ten of them standing in a cramped and confined space head to tail, whilst simultaneously the caged tunnel was being beaten and whipped with men shouting at them...there I am a paying customer an observer to this utter crime against nature feeling sick to my stomach at what I am witnessing. These animals are not domestic dogs that enjoy being on show and are happy to be trained and to perform. These animals are the apex predator in Africa...they are the