by Richard | Mar 15, 2010 | Africa, Ethiopia, Travel
Journalism is nothing if not the beautiful license to find stories. Beautiful ones, tragic ones, ones that make you think. Sniffing them out like some sort of literary bloodhound and bringing them back, tail wagging. What happens to afterwards at the hands of the...
by Richard | Feb 9, 2010 | Africa, Cape to Cairo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan, Tanzania, Travel, Zambia, Zimbabwe
For your entertainment and at least partly for my nostalgia, I kept a list traveling from Cape Town to Cairo of various interesting statistics. It makes for a colourful two minute retelling of the course of events. Cockroaches seen in hotel rooms: On at least four...
by Richard | Dec 21, 2009 | Africa, Ethiopia, Sudan, Travel
I’ve been in Ethiopia for almost two weeks now. It’s been a delicious downtime from constant traveling up to this point – a chance to stop thinking about Cairo, about endings, about the fact that nothing lasts forever. But this morning it will be time to move on. To...
