IT was my side trip over the Christmas/New Year period when everybody had gone home and I was stuck in Tanzania. Anyway I didn’t fancy goig anywhere outside the country so I thought it would be an ideal opportunity to osee more of Tanzania. Kigoma is somewhere where it’s a bit hard to get to.… Read More »
I foolishly thought it would be an easy way to earn some pocket money in the run-up to Christmas. The British government were looking for readers to sift applications for their Chevening Scholarships. As I had spent many hundreds of mind-numbingly boring hours reading Chinese IELTS essays I was perfectly qualified for this job. I… Read More »
While I don’t miss living in China I do miss the convenience of being able to get anything at all anytime day or night, delivered to your door for almost nothing. I have always sought out the Chinese diaspora wherever I have lived; I still see a friend I made in Uganda. Of course my… Read More »
End of contract treat myself was a short trip to Zanzibar for a bit of R&R. This time I decided to try Nungwi right at the tip of the island. Here you can see the sunset and the sunrise. One of the reasons I wanted to return to the island was to return to Mnemba… Read More »
Sunday and the whole day empty thankfully and Hans decided that he wanted to go to see Tower House. Even though I had to sit in the back and make the dog less nervous, I agreed to accompany him. Getting there is not easy because of the road works around the port. All along the… Read More »
When you live in Europe or other developed region and you hear of droughts, failed crops and dying cattle it’s terribly sad. The rains failing somewhere in Africa is a local and regional calamity. But this misfortune is in places you’ve never been or ever likely to go to. Ethiopia, Somalia, Angola, DRC, Chad, Niger,… Read More »
On the way up to the waterfall we stopped for breath at a lovely garden near a school. There was a dirty white sign which caught my attention and then I could see that the garden was part of Jane Goodall’s Roots and Shoots scheme. I had come across i8t many years ago in the… Read More »
It was a rare weekend stuck in Morogoro and I had trawled the internet to find something interesting to do in the town. Apart from visiting a giant Baobab tree (aren’t they all giant?) the only other thing I found was a walk to Choma Waterfall. I had never been up into the mountains I… Read More »
I had heard of APOPO rats a few years ago because there was a rat which had been awarded a bravery award. What luck that I ended up in the same town as the rats. Sadly they are nocturnal so if you want to see them you have to get up at the crack of… Read More »
I didn’t have any intention of coming back to Tanzania and when I said goodbye to people, most of them told me I’d back. I laughed at them but it seems they knew more than me. The UK was a very different place to the last time I was there. The place is depressed, people… Read More »