Tag Archives: Dispatches from the road – Day 16 in Botswana with Bruno. We started in Francistown, crossed through the Makgadikgadi Pans National Park, spent a few days in Gweta on route to Maun, where we parked ourselves for 6 days before heading on the road again toward the border of Namibia, via D’kar, Ghanzi, and Tshootsha. Sound like a lot? When […]  Enter Scene: A lone figure enters stage left, wearing a brown cowboy hat and muted, dusty clothing. Using his tool of choice – an old, dry stick – he beckons his cattle forward. The bells, attached to his keep, chime as the cattle move slowly forward, plucking up the few dry tufts of yellow grasses […]  My trip to Egypt started out badly. I arrived in Addis Ababa, expecting to have a two hour layover before boarding my flight to Cairo and meeting my friends, Alex, Fay and Steve in the airport and heading to our hotel. Instead, as I glanced at the monitor in the Addis airport, I realized that […]  Apologies for the long absence. My computer hasn’t been working properly for over a month… I wanted to write about the Christmas holidays. It now seems that they were ages ago, which shows me how I’ve neglected my blog. I don’t have any photos of Christmas itself, because my camera was broken (I have bad […] Every year, around the middle of April, Thais celebrate Songkran, or the Thai New Year. This festival, like any, consists of offerings, prayers, visits to monks and temples, and lots of family time. Unlike other festivals, however, it also consists of a 3-5 day water fight! I think the idea probably originally sprung up because […] |
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