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Safari!
Spotting lions, tigers and bears on the northern safari circuit of Tanzania with Svenja Hoke Continue reading
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The A-Z of Tanzania
We’ve been in Dar es Salaam for the last 6 weeks, working with an NGO that organises volunteering in Tanzania. Tanzania is sometimes delightful, sometimes infuriating, always humid and never boring. Here are 26 of our memories. Continue reading
Anyone for pool?
This video is dedicated to those who like a nice game of pool. Continue reading
Karibuni Tanzania!
It’s incredibly humid. There’s hardly ever electricity. And when there is electricity you get a shock when you plug anything in. Joy! Continue reading
Find the Jude – medieval mud brick fort edition
In which Jude is lost (OK OK, I was lost) in a giant mud brick citadel. Continue reading
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White Desert safari
With an old white jeep and a resourceful and refreshingly quiet Bedouin guide called Faraq, we headed out into the White Desert, a few hundred kilometres south-west of Cairo. Continue reading
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Floating down the nile
In Aswan there is only one place where you don’t get hassled by Felucca captains trying to sell you a trip, and that’s on board a Felucca. With that in mind, we braced ourselves for haggling and entered the Corniche el Nil to run the gauntlet of boat hawkers. Continue reading
Cairo
Video: it’s a good job that the pyramids are beautiful, because the city next to them has a face like a bag full of smashed badgers. Continue reading
The Pyramids
In which we visit the said pyramids, and note that they are rather large. Continue reading
Kebabs of Istanbul
We’ve joined Istanbullus in their obsession with food that’s cooked on a stick. The range of ways they’ve found to grill meat is quite incredible. Continue reading