Spending 3 hours in a ʻsuiteʼ of the millennium stadium in Cardiff could never be called exciting in itself: the sandwiches are pretty gross and you feel like youʼre in the middle of an industrial warehouse. However, if, you were …
Tag Archive: Sustainable Development
Sep
30
Personal Reflections Series : Part 1
TWM I wonder what I’d be doing if I weren’t on this trip. I’m fairly I wouldn’t be writing this, watching the Polish countryside on a sleeper from Moscow to Cologne. Whatever I’d be doing, it certainly wouldn’t have …
Sep
25
Anna’s account of life in a ger
We got up at 4am, and were ready and waiting outside in the cold by 5am for our minibus. We were setting off for Bulgan, approximately 500km north of Ulaan Baatar, into the countryside to meet with a school …
Sep
20
Gers in Gachurt
After meeting with the Mongolian Environment Ministers in the Ministry of Environment and Tourism, we had a 2 hr journey to another family situated in Gachurt. This time I kept my window shut and opted for a front seat in …
Sep
15
Workshops ‘r’ us
It is to our credit that we have been so lax in producing wonderful blogs for you this last week would you believe! We have been on a whirlwind of workshops in and out of UB, and experiencing Mongolian nomadic …
Sep
11
Stopping sand and other Mongolian adventures
So I went to a conference in Mongolia, same format as other international conferences, except you get served sliced cow tongue for lunch. India, Turkey, Korea, Kazakhstan, a few other ‘Stans and reps from embassies in Mongolia gathered together to …
Sep
11
Sep
09
some final thoughts on the train from our Rosie
I felt a bit emotional on our last day of the Trans-Mongolia. Beginning our journey on Saturday 27th August traveling here to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, required 7 train changes and moving the clocks forward 7 hours. Living for five nights on …
Sep
07
Escapades on an escalator
Today was eventful to say the least. We all had an early start, meeting a board member of the Mongolian Green Party (MGP). In the same meeting we also met the co-chairman of the MGP, who is also an advisor …