Freetown - Sierra Leone Refreshed after a full night sleep, our second day in the capital started with the whole group jumping into a hired school bus that drove us to the Liberian embassy to apply for visas. Half the group were still coming to terms with the previous five weeks, missing others that had …
Freetown - Sierra Leone Strap yourselves in! Every now and then in life there is a moment that feels defining and sat in Malmesbury’s Summer Café with Rut the day before I was flying to Freetown, Sierra Leone - and her to Auckland, New Zealand - felt like one such moment. One week ago, Freetown …
Nosy Be to Dubai Nosy Be has played hard to get. I discovered the place when looking for a few days to stay on a beach close to the capital of Antananarivo three years ago on my first visit. All recommendations pointed to a tiny tropical island on the northwest coast, 90 minutes flying time …
Anakao - Madagascar Our final few days on tour in Madagascar was everything I expect from a holiday in East Africa. Heading out at 3.30am we had to negotiate a typical Malagasy road from Isalo National Park down to Toliara harbour on the west coast where we would catch a boat that would drop us …
Madagascar One of the great paradoxes of life is the fact that I’m passionate about protecting the natural environment, yet I get bored of viewing wildlife very quickly. Give someone a camera with a telescopic lens and they immediately believe they are on a National Geographic assignment, frantically papping away at anything that moves and …
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