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Paul Haines

Haines / Water / Haineswater: the Sanction Chemist. A major comic engine of pH jokes, finance banter, bodily absurdity, political asides, Cardiff-Dar route escalation and the doctrine that all cars are ultimately Puntos.

Trips: 11
Recent posts: 0

Trips attended

2026 / Yerevan, Armenia
The next official matter before the General Secretariat: mountains, monasteries, brandy, border ambiguity, and enough Caucasus energy to restore institutional morale.
2025 / Oslo, Norway and Longyearbyen, Svalbard
The Arctic edition: seed vault mythology, Pyramiden, Barentsburg, polar-bear-adjacent caution, and the northernmost version of almost everything.
2024 / Sarajevo and Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
A Bosnia conference with real historical weight, mountain roads, Ottoman bridges, concrete textures, and enough weather risk to satisfy the movement.
2023 / Cluj-Napoca, Romania and Debrecen, Hungary
A Cluj and Debrecen route that proved ICOM can still generate institutional complexity from apparently manageable European cities.
2022 / Skopje, Macedonia
The Skopje edition restored overseas ICOM energy with monumental public art, Balkan logistics, and enough civic oddness for a respectable field file.
2021 / Aberdeen, UK - Och-Eye-COM
A Scottish edition demonstrating that ICOM energy does not require the former Soviet sphere when domestic weather and granite can carry the burden.
2017 / Minsk, Belarus
The Minsk edition offered wide avenues, Soviet residue, bureaucratic atmosphere, and a pleasingly official sense of being watched by the itinerary.
2016 / Astana and Almaty, Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan brought the delegation into Central Asia: Astana futurism, Almaty mountains, long distances, and the possibility that the route itself was the point.
2014 / St. Petersburg and Moscow, Russia
The Russia edition joined St. Petersburg and Moscow into one heavy, grand, politically complicated chapter of the canon.
2013 / Tirane and Vlore, Albania
The Albania edition paired Tirane and Vlore with Balkan roads, coastal movement, and the Undergoing Trumpet energy later preserved in lore.
2012 / Belgrade, Serbia
Belgrade supplied river confluence, nightlife, Yugoslav history, concrete, and the sort of heavy-but-funny atmosphere ICOM likes.