by Richard | Dec 27, 2010 | Europe, Travel, United Kingdom
Last year’s Christmas miracle was not being left in the desert in northern Sudan. This year’s Christmas miracle is nevertheless a contender for the throne of strangest annual experience. Every time I think I might have peaked at the oddest possible thing I...
by Richard | Dec 18, 2010 | Africa, Journalism, Thinking, Travel, Uganda
Light and dark are a simple analogy for so many things. Waiting at the baggage counter for my pack and pondering the miles of home beyond the exit gate, I think I would have done well to consider how light and dark interact. How they manage, in a way, to make each...
by Richard | Dec 14, 2010 | Africa, Journalism, Travel, Uganda
Kitgum lies about three hours east of Gulu, and is the largest town in the Kitgum district of Northern Uganda. It is a place where, as I stepped out of the front door of the Sunshine Modern Guest House (singles from 16,000 shillings), I was privileged to witness the...
by Richard | Dec 5, 2010 | Africa, Journalism, Travel, Uganda
Arriving in Uganda three days ago, I am now in Gulu. The fact that I am blogging this, from an airconditioned coffee shop in safety should immediately give you a hint that you shouldn’t believe everything you read in the papers. For the most part, the last few...
by Richard | Nov 25, 2010 | Uncategorized
The end of the year is approaching, bringing with it that sense of slowdown, of a subtle gear shift across my life and the lives of people making plans to be elsewhere in December. Something in the last, frantic rush to Get Things Done has meant that I’ve been a...
