phone call out of the blue brings three friends from old Travel days together. We first met on a ten-day familiarisation trip to southern Germany and Berlin (in the heart of the then DDR, Democratic Republic of Deutschland). Alan Guignon was the ‘tour leader’ (representing the hosts, Lufthansa and the German Tourist Office), and …
I am concerned for the fate of Timbuktu after rebels of the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) captured the city last weekend. Before the occupation, Timbuktu, a UNESCO World Heritage Site of ancient mosques and burial grounds, had become an obligatory stop for budget backpackers seeking the desert experience and scholars looking …
I’m not exactly sitting ‘home alone’ sitting pins into a world map to mark the cities I’ve visited. But it is a pastime I started a couple of years ago. And recently, I noticed friends on Facebook using the app. So here is my update – right up to the moment I got bored with …
Quite by accident, I came across a new software for publishing my ‘Books’. (These were the old-fashioned tomes I used to write at the end of a big trip, and email to you.) I would do this thinking that all the world (or at least my close friends) were reading and enjoying them. However, one …
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