Happiness is a warm yurt...

Posted by: Ed Gillespie

...and I've just spent a glorious weekend learning traditional Mongolian construction techniques and practising poor innunendo (...five long, hot, sweaty hours of erection in the woods etc etc) during the somewhat complicated assembly of the yurt we bought in Ulaan Bataar during our round the world trip (www.lowcarbontravel.com). It's the ultimate souvenir - bringing back your own house - and we now have a beautiful Mongolian retreat in the woods of Norfolk where we can escape the travails of London, cook up some camel casserole and relax over a glass or two of fermented horse milk. There are more photos of the construction process and my mate's grogeous natural swimming pool here. It's time to go back to the woods...

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