Archive for May 2009
Ladakh, Chapter 7
Another installment of my Ladakh Journal: Chapter 7
Saturday banking
We had the day off today. No special reason, just one if those days that we scarred around the callender to give people a break. It was great. It meant that I could go to the bank, exchange money, pay in a cheque and send money back to England all in less than 45 minutes. Normally it would be ambitious to expect to achieve so many jobs in anything less than two days in Saudi Arabia. For a start the banks close at 4 pm and we don’t get out of work until 3.30, so strictly speaking going to the bank isn’t very practical at all.
Making soundslides
In the last two days I have been going through my journal and photographs from the trip I made to Ladakh in 2005. I want to complete the SoumdSlides series that I started three years ago.
Going through it now I realize that I wasn’t thinking of telling a story in this way at the time. I don’t have enough photos at certain points if I had been thinking of the story I would have taken them. I was very much thinking in single images.
The other thing tfat strikes me is the brevity of my journal. I was spending quite a while writing everyday but there was so much that I left out. At least now when I read it the details come back. Maybe not all of them but a surprising amount.
I have the day off tomorrow and am going to take the opportunity to go to the bank. Hopefully it should be quiet.
Moving back
I have decided to move my blog back to wordpress as it is easier to host there than keep updating the many files on my own server.
My recent posts have been about Ladakh. I have been looking over my journal from 2005 and producing SoundSlides. I can see lots of room for improvement but, here they are.
http://www.hobnail.com/Ladakh09/Ladakh_Ch5/index.html
http://www.hobnail.com/Ladakh09/Zangskar-Chumik/index.html
