by Richard | Jun 2, 2010 | Journalism, Photography, Sudan
There is much that I have come to remember that I missed about university. Like learning – that feeling as though you are actually becoming smarter with each article read. Or that feeling of checking books out of the library as though you were becoming wiser...
by Richard | May 2, 2010 | Africa, Cape to Cairo, Sudan, Travel
I don’t so much wake up as have the sleep evaporated from me. Morning in the Sudan drifts warm into the room. My bed sags forlornly, too worn to squeal in protest as I climb out of my sleeping bag; packing it and my toiletries into my backpack in minutes. I’m getting...
by Richard | Apr 9, 2010 | Africa, Cape to Cairo, Sudan, Travel
Nostalgia makes a fine mistress in the evenings. I’ve realised recently that finding interesting bits and pieces on travel blogs about Sudan is actually quite difficult. Searching for Sudan away from the South and Darfur, there is actually not a whole lot out...
by Richard | Feb 22, 2010 | Africa, Sudan, Travel
The stories from good travels never really end. There is always a new one, a new gloss on an old one, or simply a retelling to someone who has never heard it before. Sometimes it’s a connected event that triggers a memory. Other times its a photo, a scrawl left...
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 | Jan 7, 2010 | Africa, Sudan, Travel
At 10h30 this morning the train from Luxor hissed to a final stop and I popped my tired little head out in Cairo. It’s four days short of two months of near non-stop moving, busing, boating, trucking (or on-top-of-trucking, technically) and one night on a...
