Will Bowes-McTearCorona Virus in the UK — A Betrayal of Public InterestAs I write this, the news headlines on the TV are stating that updated advice for those over the age of 70 will come within the next few…Mar 15, 2020Mar 15, 2020
Will Bowes-McTearThe Gift We Share, The Burden We BearEvery person who has ever lived, every man, every woman, every prodigious creative, every political revolutionary, every hopeless…Apr 16, 2017Apr 16, 2017
Will Bowes-McTear15 sheep per person - The beauty and isolation of New Zealand’s South IslandIt was only in the census of 2015 that the population of New Zealand’s south island — a 150 000 square kilometer land mass - exceeded one…May 29, 2016May 29, 2016
Will Bowes-McTear"Not all who wander are lost" - Bilbo Baggins. I however am very, very lost.At 11am, I pulled on my cycling gear, rushedly ate a cereal bar or three and went to collect a rental mountain bike – a very nice Giant…May 18, 2016May 18, 2016
Will Bowes-McTear"Chicken Pad Thai and Frank Sinatra”By the side of the coastal road in a secluded northern corner of Koh Phangan, an island situated off the southern coast of Thailand, I find…May 7, 2016May 7, 2016
Will Bowes-McTearThe moistest Sunday on record — SongkranI am dressed in a pink floral Hawaiian shirt, the sleeves crudely cut off with a knife, my face caked in a thick, beige crust. This is…Apr 23, 20161Apr 23, 20161
Will Bowes-McTearShanties of steel, temples of goldThe streets are drowned with the clamour of ancient vehicles fighting for precious asphalt inches, their ill serviced engines competing…Apr 9, 2016Apr 9, 2016
Will Bowes-McTearLife in a Buddhist monastery…Koyasan – the mountaintop home of Buddhism and the most sacred place in all of Japan. A cable car limps steeply through the pine trees…Mar 29, 2016Mar 29, 2016
Will Bowes-McTearTokyo — “city” doesn’t come closeGrowing up in rural South Wales, I thought Cardiff was big, London enormous but this is a different beast all together. This is Tokyo!Mar 26, 2016Mar 26, 2016
