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Featured Neptunus -
The King of the Sea is Crowned.
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Vol. 18 No. 6
June 2017
BIMBO AND WILD WOLF AT THE RECENT PHILIPPINE NASH HASH IN CEBU.
(Formerly Asia-Pacific Harrier)
www.harriermagazine.com Editor / Publisher Jim Edens publisher@harriermagazine.com
Administration Lisa Sukita customerservice@harriermagazine.com Design / Artwork / Photos / Layout Digital Edition / Website Jimmy Wilkins jwilkins@harriermagazine.com Europe Correspondent Julie Burgess jaburgess@planet.nl
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Africa Correspondent Julia Stanton: Julia_Stanton@hotmail.com Contributors (in order of appearance): Editorial / Photos / Graphics Haggis Riff-Raff, Ko0 Ko0 4 Cock Julia Stanton Disco Short Circuit Regular Contributors: Kurt Bodmer, Julie Burgess, Paul Cade, Jim Edens, Randall Salisbury, Ian Slater, Lisa Sukita, Jimmy Wilkins
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Editor’s Notes Her name is Aphrodite and she rides a crimson shell, And you know you cannot leave her for you touched the distant sands With tales of brave Ulysses, how his naked ears were tortured By the sirens sweetly singing. The tiny purple fishes run laughing through your fingers, And you want to take her with you to the hard land of the winter. Disraeli Gears, 1967, lyrics by Cream (Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker) What does the Aphrodite have to do with this edition of Harrier Magazine? The astute musicologist might recall that according to Roman mythology Neptunus, pictured on the cover of this month’s Harrier Magazine, was a lover of the goddess Aphrodite. In Homer’s Iliad Ulysses is tied to the
mast of his ship so he could hear the intoxicatingly deadly music of the Sirens. Ulysses is forever haunted by the lost loves of his travels represented by the naked Aphrodite.
Back in the fabulous Philippines, the Cebu H3 hosted a superb Philippines Nash Hash. Excellent trails, gourmet food, and plenty of San Miguel Beer. The next PI Nash Hash is in Manila in 2019 and we will keep you apprised of this event The cover feature this month is as the details unfold. Neptunus-the King of the sea, and a modern day Hash legend Harrier Magazine publisher Bimbo, among many of his fans. His made recce to Fiji a year ahead years of hashing and putting on of Interhash 2018 to meet the extraordinary events in amazing organizers and sponsors who are places is definitely the stuff that putting this together for you. Check legends are made of. the latest updates on IH Fiji in each edition of Harrier Magazine From modern day Europe we travel from now until the big event in May to Cuba, the home of the Cuban 2018. Missile Crisis, and revolutionary icons like Fidel Castro and Che Hash Boy now has his own line of Guevara, neither of whom got offensive license plates. Get ‘em around to starting a Hash in Cuba while they last. Another scandalous Libre. Our modern revolutionary edition of the Stockholm Absolut hash heroes did just that, and lived Hash Trash is guaranteed to make to tell about it. the faint-hearted cringe. From Havana we jump over to Palm Springs, the winter home of Hollywood movie stars, and now home to the annual Palm Springs H3.
Check out the treasure trove of great HHH events coming up in the months ahead, as well as some “serious” running events for you racists hiding out there in the predawn shadows of the early Head Mistress takes us on another morning hours. African adventure, this time to the small landlocked country I hope to see you on trail soon. of Rwanda. According to HM, Rwanda may be in line to host Pan Jim Edens, Editor-in-Chief Africa Hash in 2019, so stay tuned Harrier Magazine International Edition to Harrier Magazine for updates. www.HarrierMagazine.com
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HASH LA VICTORIA SIEMPRE
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ollowing the overthrow of the Fulgencio Batisa dictatorship, the Cuban Revolution implemented agrarian land reform, redistributed wealth, improved literacy to 97%, set up a public health scheme that is the envy of the World, defended against a US backed invasion, survived a close-call nuclear crisis between Bobby Kennedy & Niki Khrushchev, and organised various away tours to the Congo, Ethiopia, Angola and Bolivia. However, none of the great heroes of the Revolution: Fidel Castro, Camilo Cienfuegos or Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara ever got around to setting up a Hash.
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NEPTUNUS WEEKEND APR. 28-30
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he final weekend of April witnessed an unusual gathering in the historic surroundings of Castle de Berckt at Baarlo in the south Netherlands province of Limburg. More than 150 Hashers came together to marvel at the fact that Neptunus, the sage of Hague H3, is not dead yet. The man himself preferred to think of the event as a celebration of his 25 years of Hashing and his 65th birthday; nobody had the heart to disillusion him.
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t. Patrick’s Day weekend Palm Springs H3 presented half-minds with the opportunity for a weekend away in the California desert for the FIRST EVER HASH SPRINGS weekend. The event capped out at 150 hashers and with a wee bit of the Luck of the Irish this Harriett was one of the first to rego at the early price of 69.00. I can’t think of a better way to spend a weekend than hashing in a desert oasis with half-minds.
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Hashing in Rwanda
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his month Head Mistress reports on hashing in Rwanda, the land of 1000 hills.
Rwanda, a small landlocked county in East Africa is home to one hash, the Kigali Hash House Harriers based in the capital of the country. Runs are every Saturday afternoon meeting at various areas around the city to start driving to the start of the run. Clear announcements about the meeting place and the driving directions are clearly announced on Facebook a few days before giving the impression of a clearly mismanaged hash. 60 Harrier
Rwanda is a landlocked East African country with a green, mountainous landscape. Its renowned Volcanoes National Park is home to mountain gorillas and golden monkeys. The park encompasses 4,507m-tall Mt. Karisimbi and 4 other forested volcanoes. In the southwest is Nyungwe National Park, with ancient montane rainforest thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a habitat for chimpanzees and other primates. Capital: Kigali Population: 11.61 million Official languages: Kinyarwanda, French, English
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OUT OF CHAOS ON ON TO GOOD TIMES
PHILIPPINE NASH HASH 2017 MAY 19TH TO 21ST IN CEBU
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ost Philippine Hash Groups are located in Luzon and Imperial Manila does consider us to be hicks in the boondocks down here in Cebu. We are somewhat insular and do not travel well but Luzon hashers have this image of Cebu being the home of short, easy, flat runs with a rest Halt every 500 metres. So it came as something of a surprise after our 1000TH Run in October 2015 that Cebu was asked to host the 2017 Nash Hash. However, we did rise to the challenge and soon found out what lay ahead of us. In the main, Philippine Hashers are not indigenous to the Philippines and you would expect these ex-pats to be quite a savvy bunch. We began to wonder at the problems many of them had in filling in our simple online rego form and easy payment arrangements. With a lot of perseverance, we ended up with around 75 confirmed registrations. Cebu has now overtaken much of Manila’s traffic problem so even getting a small group of hashers to a run site can be somewhat fraught. Most of our normal Sunday runs involve from 5 to 30 km on main roads followed by narrow lanes which usually are rocky tracks – not suited for busing in 85 hashers (this restricted our choice of run areas). One way or another, we choose 3 separate areas for each day’s runs and managed to find hares to give a choice of easy or hard routes each day; all starting with a drive out from our kennel (The SandTrap pub) at 2pm.