How much is the fish? (Food and drink in Africa, pt. 3)
I remember the first meal I cooked for the truck group. For some reason, we had decided to have fish. So I went to the market in Rabat, Morocco, speaking neither Arabic nor French, having never cooked for a large
It’s dead, Jim! (Food and drink in Africa, pt. 2)
Some readers might think it's crazy to go and eat street food in Africa. They have seen the images of meat buzzing with flies in the hot African sun. Well, if it makes you feel any better: cooked meat is hard to come by on the streets; and if you find it it's been cooked until every last trace of life is gone. And by the way: the meat is usually really fresh - you can watch the butcher do his work right by the side of the road.
Traveler’s delight
May 12, 2012. As a traveler it is always good to see that even the seemingly most impossible places can be done without a tour operator - and at a lower price. It was like that when we decided to
Westside story
April 27, 2012. Yesterday was Independence Day in Tanzania and I learnt an important word: uhuru. Uhuru means independence. In the spirit of that I decided to change plans. Initially I was on my way to Kigoma to follow in the
ONE Germany in Tanzania
To get us started here's a review of a trip to Tanzania I went on with my beloved NGO ONE. We went to Arusha and Dar es Salaam in October 2009 (right after the German general elections) to study the progress being made in the fight against poverty. The post was originally published on the ONE blog.