Reminiscing a bit today, as I've dug out yet another batch of old photos from the pre-digital age. Lake Malawi today, folks - where I had ended up on a whim, really. Whims are how my travels roll. I was at the tail end of [...]
The quality and style of this photo might indicate it's ancient. But no, it's merely old(ish) - and simply a scanned version of a slide (remember those?) from the very last bits of the 20th century. I've been playing with a new pocket-sized scanner that [...]
Gritty street scene, Curepipe Mauritius, 1995
Wandering around Zanzibar as I arrived, fresh from the Dar ferry on a tropical March afternoon, my first thought - and my last when I left a week later, as it turned out - was that this enchanted African island speaks to all our five [...]
Here at Sophie's World we're passionate about animal welfare. It's perhaps genetic: apart from the family and very close friends, our mum/grandmum generally preferred animals to people. The rest of us aren't quite that extreme, at least not yet. Alexandra is a vegetarian solely for [...]
Zanzibar is one of those really wonderful names, isn't it? Like Samarkand. Or Esfahan. Or Babylon. Every syllable promises adventure. Earlier this year, I took the ferry from Dar es Salaam across to Zanzibar, meaning to a have look around and perhaps stay the night. [...]
I had 4-5 hours to kill in Masvingo once, waiting for the last bus to Harare. Must have been 16 years ago. So I did what I often do when I'm short on time: I asked a taxi driver if there was anything interesting to [...]
