I'll be on my way again, somewhere in Europe or the Midle East or Asia. At the moment the problems which make travel so interesting and unpredictable are already starting. Apparently the Iranian Embassy was on holiday for most of March making it impossible to get my visa which will now have to be sorted out en route. More seriously America and China seem to be intent on starting a new Cold War with George W. Bush trying to out stare them in a blinking competition about a crashed American spy-plane.
Nobody seems to be budging.
I expect it will all sort itself out. Things usually do. All the maps of where I'm going are below for anyone remotely interested although I have no real idea of when I'll be in any of these places. When I last updated this page I pointed out that the background to this page is a map instead of a flag. So far no-one has identified it.