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Travels in the Pacific

South Pacific travel diaries
The Languages of Pentecost Island
The furthest place on Earth

Travels in the Americas

Belize expedition diary
Mexico travel diary
Where the wild things are
Sitting out a storm in Havana
Bolivia expedition diary
Popping pills in the Andes
Upriver in Amazonia

Other travel tales

Seeing red - China
Rebuilding Babel - Dubai
Escaping Narnia - the Highlands
Rosslyn Chapel
Egypt

Science

Killer plants
The history of the rabbit
How the whale learned to swim
Life on other planets?
A tribute to genes

School/university essays & notes

Google
Andrew Gray's photo

About me

I was born in 1983 and grew up in the Buckinghamshire village of Emberton, about sixty miles north of London, but at the age of sixteen I moved with my family to a remote and rain-soaked corner of the Scottish Highlands.

After leaving school, I spent a year travelling around the world and volunteering as a school teacher on Pentecost Island in Vanuatu. The next three years were dominated by an assortment of part-time jobs and further overseas adventures, including popping pills on a Bolivian mountaintop in the name of science and counting frogs in the Belizean jungle. I also got a Biology degree from the University of Edinburgh. After graduating, I spent a year tutoring biology at Basil Paterson College in Edinburgh.

In 2006, I returned to the South Pacific, spending nearly three years back amongst the islands, the coconuts, the coral fragments, the hibiscus flowers and the biting insects. There I worked as a science teacher, and helped to document endangered Melanesian languages.

I am now back in Britain, studying for a Masters in Ecological Economics.

Links

AegisQuest - escape from virtual dungeons
Anne Gray - publisher of the Alternative Runrig Digest
ChocSoc - the Edinburgh University Chocolate Society
Gairloch Online - my parents' Highland home
Pentecost Island - guesthouses and local information
Two Lochs Radio - Britain's smallest radio station

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