currently with only sub-Saharan nations, but very much to be continued…
October’s been a surprisingly crazy month – have had tonnes of visitors here in Shanghai, which is weird cos I tell people not to come as it’s a pale shadow of it once was and I’m surely on my way out soon, yet they’ve been turning up in droves anyway! Still, I can’t let the […]
Sri Lanka in Feb 2018 was one of my fave ever trips, as much for the place itself (which I’m sure I’ll talk about at a later date) as for the friends I made whilst there. I organically ended up in a gang of solo travellers from different parts of the world, split roughly equally
Astonishing, alien landscapes. A scam artist with a busload of Zimbabwean migrants. The most magical skies my eyes have beheld. The ghastliest tour operators ever. Animal friends for days and days. And perhaps the worst place on the planet to be plant-based. My time in Namibia was a tale of maddeningly wild contrasts – though
I’ve been fortunate enough to have suffered a whole array of near-death experiences at this stage in life. And of all those, summiting Kilimanjaro is the one that featured the most prolonged physical agony – but it’s also the one that I cherish most, and perhaps the only one that I look back upon with