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“To these he added two ‘intermediate modifications’: cirro-cumulus and cirro-stratus; and two compound modifications: cumulo-stratus and cumulo-cirro-stratus. This final modification was more colloquially known as the nimbus or rain cloud. From”
― Peter Moore, The Weather Experiment: The Pioneers Who Sought to See the Future

“Just outside Tehran we passed a sign that said, ‘Servitude is never accepted in an ideology that believes in Martyrdom’. Below was a picture of a white dove copping a bullet in the heart.”
― Peter Moore, The Wrong Way Home

“She said I could come back to her room if I liked. ‘I’ll check if you’ve got testicular cancer,’ she said without a trace of humour.

It kind of killed the mood.”
― Peter Moore, Swahili for the Broken-Hearted

“If there is one thing I’ve discovered in all my travels, it’s that you can’t take Italians anywhere… They strolled leisurely, smiling and waving, convinced that the crowd had gathered to see them. The really annoying thing is that they look so damn stylish doing it.”
― Peter Moore, The Wrong Way Home

“Now, call me shallow, but if I walk into a pub and there are girls dancing on the bar, I tend to stick around.”
― Peter Moore, Swahili for the Broken-Hearted

“she's teaching me to see to be blind sighted.”
― Peter Moore

“Singapore had taken a much more, well, Singaporean approach to the problem of hippies than the Malaysians had. They’d let them in, but only if they got a haircut.”
― Peter Moore, The Wrong Way Home

“I’ve long held that you can judge a country’s economic plight by the number of goats it has. The more goats there are, the more desperate the situation in that particular village, town, or country.”
― Peter Moore, Swahili for the Broken-Hearted

“The doors had a peephole, and periodically an Iranian guard would look through and choose who he would let in. It was a bit like waiting to be picked for a sports team at school. You stand there trying to look as useful as possible to the two kids lucky enough to have been chosen as captains. If they were picking you for footy you tried to look as tough as possible. For basketball, you tried to look as tall as possible. For cricket, as long-suffering and patient as possible. That day, every time the guard looked through the peephole, I tried to look as un-Great Satan-like as I could.”
― Peter Moore, The Wrong Way Home

“I told him he wasn’t my friend. Before he could protest I said that real friends don’t wake up other friends in the middle of the night for money for drugs. (Even as I said it I thought of at least half a dozen occasions when that has happened to me, but that wasn’t the point.)”
― Peter Moore, Swahili for the Broken-Hearted

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― Peter Moore, Vroom by the Sea

“There was a time not so long ago when you couldn’t get into Malawi unless you could slide a Coke bottle between your leg and your jeans. You had to stick the bottle in at the waistband and under the watchful gaze of the Malawi police, move it between the denim and your pelvis and down your inside leg until it popped out through the leghole near your foot. The government claimed that it was to protect the country from the moral decline caused by tight jeans.”
― Peter Moore, Swahili for the Broken-Hearted

“Lesotho is known as ‘The Kingdom Without Fences,’ but perhaps a more accurate description would be ‘The Kingdom Where Cattle are Allowed to Wander Freely into the Path of Oncoming Vehicles.”
― Peter Moore, Swahili for the Broken-Hearted

“I justified my decision to take the bus by the fact that hippies had never spent much time in Malaysia either. To put it bluntly, they weren’t welcome. An official government regulation at the time banned hippies from staying in the country. It read: If you are dressed in shabby, dirty, or indecent clothes, living in temporary or makeshift shelters you will be deemed a hippie. On being deemed a hippie, your visit pass will be cancelled and you will be ordered to leave Malaysia within 24 hours, failing which you will be prosecuted under immigration laws. Furthermore, you will not be permitted to enter Malaysian again.”
― Peter Moore, The Wrong Way Home

“Sure, there was also a lot of scaffolding, but anyone who has visited any of the great cities of Europe, particularly Italian ones like Venice and Florence, comes to expect a bit of scaffolding – especially over the most famous buildings and especially during peak tourist times. In fact, there was a time I was convinced that the city fathers of Venice kept St. Marks under scaffolding in a deliberate ploy to get tourists back to Venice when their natural inclination after being ripped off unnaturally for a single slice of pizza was to never visit again.”
― Peter Moore, The Wrong Way Home

“Phips his Wreck-Voyage.”
― Peter Moore, Endeavour: The Ship and the Attitude that Changed the World

“It was the first rough travelling I’d done on my African adventure and it felt good. South Africa had been too easy. I simply turned up at a minivan station and there was a death trrap waiting for me. Now I was on a painfully slow truck that shuddered and groaned in a manner that suggested it wasn’t long for this world.”
― Peter Moore, Swahili for the Broken-Hearted

“she's teaching me to read to be blind sighted.”
― Peter Moore

“If I didn’t act quickly I’d be forced to face the consequences of what had happened every day of the week. I decided to do what any maladjusted commitmentphobe would do. I decided to run away to africa.”
― Peter Moore, Swahili for the Broken-Hearted