November 3, 2011. With the first two nights of excellent bush camping the ‘let’s-see-how-smelly-we-can-get’ contest has started. Only 10 more to come…
Now we’re drawing in on Western Sahara the police controls are becoming more and more strict (up North they had just as many but would always wave us through…). But still almost everyone is friendly apart from the occasional rocks thrown at the bus and bird flipping.
Five years — Traveling in times of fear
Today five years ago I was sitting in a restaurant in Timbuktu waiting for lunch while across the city in our hotel Martin was shot dead and Steve, Johan, and Sjaak were kidnapped by a gang associated with the aQIM
Navigating Cinque Terre by boat, train, bus and on foot
The UNESCO World heritage site most people know simply as Cinque Terre is much more than just five villages on the Ligurian coast. There is also Portovenere, where I stayed for four nights, and Isola Palmaria, both at the mouth
Three years
It is not the first thing you will learn about me when we meet. It is not the first thing you will learn when I talk about travelling Africa. It is not even the first thing I will mention when