Africa

Zanzibar

July 15, 2009

Days on the beach are so hard 😉






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Smiles from beautiful Zanzibar

July 13, 2009

OMG – SUN and WARMTH.  FINALLY!  My spirits are up.  We are in Zanzibar.  White beaches, moorish architecture, dodgy food stalls and fresh sugar cane juice.  Feels so nice to be wandering in sandals again after such cold nights in Zambia and Malawi.   Safari-ing has been tough work but it feels so nice to […]






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On the shores of Lake Malawi

July 9, 2009

And I am ALIVE!!!!  It's been a week since I've been in Africa.  And it has been nothing like I expected.  First, Zambia was FREEZING cold.  Thank goodness we're out of there.  Zambia is poor.  7 out of 10 people have HIV and the life expectancy is 31 years old!  Gosh.  We had a few […]






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I Dream of Africa

June 30, 2009

I'm off to Johannesburg today.  And then to Livingstone Zambia where I join my safari group at a camp at the base of Victoria Falls.   I can't even believe it.   We'll be safari-ing through Zambia, Malawi, Tanzania, Zanzibar and Kenya over 21 glorious days of no computers, no cell phones, no desks, no […]






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Cairo, again

August 12, 2008

I’m in Cairo for a second time in less than six months. And it is still as mad as it was the first time. =) I am just amazed at how this city sustains itself. Traffic is horrendous, the city is completely over-populated, it is hot, dirty and so so polluted – yet somehow, it […]






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Manic manic Cairo (منك كرو)

April 26, 2008

Cairo is absolute madness. Madness. 18M people, dirty, chaotic, polluted and just manic in every possible way. The few days I spent there were amazing. First, I saw the pyramids at Giza. They were so beautiful from afar but a bit of a disappointment up close. I thought they’d be bigger than they were. Like […]






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