Tea in the Sahara Sunshine without rain makes a desert Arab proverb When talking with a Dubai friend recently, I was saying how much I miss the desert. I always liked the isolation, the remoteness and inaccessibility of it all. While working in the U.A.E, we coordinated regular… Read More »Travel
First time travel To travel is to see, to return is to talk ~ African Proverb I owe the thrill of my first flight and my introduction to international travel to my darling dad. He had entertained me countless times with his RAF stories of life in… Read More »TRAVEL
I’m an alien “The world citizen is a small leaf, on the giant tree of life” Suzy Kassem Have you been called names? I’m not talking about nicknames but labels used to talk to you or about you as ‘the foreigner’. Over the years we have been… Read More »Travel
Travelling without moving Kind words can conquer (Tamil) There are places that we like to travel back to. Sri Lanka is a place we have loved and visited five times now. It’s a country where we have really enjoyed the people, the culture and the food. It is where I… Read More »Food
R&R Even the mightiest eagle comes down to the treetops to rest ~ Ugandan Proverb Any parent, teacher or student in an International school will tell you, this is a frenetic time of year, when there is a lot of extra stress for many people. The… Read More »SLOW
“Moshi, Moshi” The hard road turns the traveller into the same dust that he has to swallow. ~ Japanese Proverb Remember the reverse culture shock in Oh, the Places You’ll Go? Well, our solution at the time was to take the first job that came our… Read More »Travel
Sweet and Sour When the father has eaten too much salt in his lifetime, then his son thereafter will have a great thirst – Vietnamese Proverb Before we went to Vietnam I had only ever seen depictions of the country in films about war; Apocalypse Now (1979), Good… Read More »Food
The Travel Bug Travel and you will see them, sit and they will come to you. ~ African Proverb In the last piece I asked, why do we fly? We considered our environment, the hassles, and many travel horror stories. So why do we put ourselves… Read More »Travel
Fly Away Safari njema rafiki – Swahili Why do we fly? Consider our environment, the hassles, and the horror stories. Think for one minute about our planet. We all know about our carbon foot print and the effect of airplane emissions on our world. Some airlines now… Read More »Travel
Big 5 If there were no elephant in the jungle, the buffalo would be a great animal ~ Ghanaian Proverb Everyone has heard of The Big 5; Rhino, elephant, African lion, Cape Buffalo, and African leopard. For many people, an expensive safari in a national park like The… Read More »Travel