Welcome to my Addis Ababa travel guide!
Addis Ababa is the capital of Ethiopia and Africa's fourth-largest city with a population of around 4.5...
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Togo Travel Guide
Welcome to my Togo travel guide!
Togo, or the Togolese Republic to give it its full title, is one of the smallest countries in Africa but it enjoys one of the highest standards of...
The Ultimate Packing List for West Africa
Welcome to my packing list for West Africa!
For me, the key to packing for any trip is to take as little as possible to keep yourself fed, watered, safe, healthy, warm, dry, and...
Benin Travel Guide
Benin is a small, little-visited West African nation. This former French colony has a democratically elected government and enjoys relative peace and stability. It scores...
A Review of a West Africa Tour run by Dragoman
Mark and I do a lot of independent travel. We enjoy the freedom and flexibility that goes with ‘doing our own thing’. However, this type of travel can be exhausting! When we completed...
A Review of Clock Kitchen’s Cooking Class in Marrakech
Both Mark and I love to cook and consider ourselves to be reasonably competent in the kitchen, but there is so much still to learn. Whenever we are in a new city, we try to attend a cooking...
A Review of Bear on Bike Cooking Class, Barcelona
Both Mark and I love to cook and consider ourselves to be reasonably competent in the kitchen, but there is so much still to learn. Whenever we are in a new city, we try to attend a cooking...
Varkala – ‘we’ve died and gone to hippy heaven’
From Kanyakamuri, we took the train up the Keralan coast to Varkala for a couple of days. The resort is perched perilously along the...
Family connections in the Nilgiris
As I explained in a previous post, one of the main reasons for going to India was to discover more about Mark’s family history.
Mark’s paternal grandfather,...
Wassu – The Gambia’s Stonehenge
The site of standing stones at Wassu on the northern banks of the River Gambia is one of over 1000 such sites in The Gambia and Senegal which, collectively, were designated as a World Heritage...
