My last few days in Africa continued to provide both challenges and opportunities! On my last blog entry I reflected on perhaps the most challenging of days, so the next morning I was quite unsure how I’d pull up. Having emptied the tank it was going to be one of two...

The ochre sand is so similar to the outback!Monkeys, giraffes, zebra and a maximum security prison! To say the last few days have been interesting is something of an understatement!  So as I was saying in my last post, the hellhole of a hotel I ended up in two night...

My unit in Nairobi…the one I wasn’t supposed to be in 🤣I spent my last day in India in the company of Professor Giri, a friend of Asraf and an altogether wonderful human being! As a leading international writer and scholar of political sciences I had a great day...

The tiny alleys of Varanasi old townReflecting on India Often when one reads about people’s experiences in India words that get overused include ‘contradictory’, ‘fascinating’, ‘exhausting’, ‘frustrating’ ‘friendly.’.All of those apply to my short time here. It is a...

Stopped at a local bike shop….no shimano parts here!India - the gift that keeps on giving! Sunday: After a breakfast of cold omelette and roti I set off today towards the main Highway to Varanasi on a mission to get on to it tomorrow with a view to gadging a lift from...

Day Four I’ve just read my last post and laughed at my final comment about being ‘ready for bed’…it would have been even funnier had I said ‘sleep’! Because that was the missing ingredient in this hotel….the actual ability to sleep. Aside from feck all privacy….the...