by Richard | Feb 9, 2010 | Africa, Cape to Cairo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan, Tanzania, Travel, Zambia, Zimbabwe
For your entertainment and at least partly for my nostalgia, I kept a list traveling from Cape Town to Cairo of various interesting statistics. It makes for a colourful two minute retelling of the course of events. Cockroaches seen in hotel rooms: On at least four...
by Richard | Nov 26, 2009 | Africa, Cape to Cairo, Travel, Zambia
After on and off storms chasing my activities at Livingstone, it was an African-blue sky that watched over the hours-long bus ride from Livingstone to Lusaka. Lusaka would not be my destination today though. A tiny dot of a town – nay, a village – called...
by Richard | Nov 26, 2009 | Africa, Cape to Cairo, Reflections, Tanzania, Travel, Zambia
The flame trees outside the Dar es Salaam train station are some of the most beautiful plants i’ve seen in days – more so as their orange flowers lick the deep blue of the sky, cloudless. It’s hardly fitting that here, in this loud and beautiful...
by Richard | Nov 23, 2009 | Africa, Cape to Cairo, Travel, Zambia
I have been neglectful in posting stories, but have pages and pages filled with thoughts and images of the things I have seen and am absolutely bursting to share. Tomorrow is a train ride from Kapiri Mposhi in Zambia, which ends on Friday in Dar es Salaam in Tanzania....
by Richard | Nov 18, 2009 | Africa, Backpackers, Cape to Cairo, Travel, Zambia
For the abysmal failure at a-post-a-day, I apologise. Partly finding Internet is not so easy (what was I thinking), but its also been perfectionism on my part at not being able to really tell the stories as what they mean, more than simple narrative. I realise now...
