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Sometimes when you’re out reporting in the field it’s easy to become a bit cynical. When all of the facts and figures are thrown at…
A trip wouldn’t be a trip without me banging on about the food and during a break from reporting on #ZambiaHealth, I got the chance…
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“We are like a person on a dark night, hunting frantically for a lost key under a light. Not because that is where the key…
As anyone who reads this blog regularly will know, I believe every grown up gap year needs a few luxuries along the way – no…
I don’t know about you but there have been a few times in my life when I have been so angry with someone I have…
When you think of animals in South Africa I’m sure what instantly springs to mind is the Big Five. But in amongst all of the…
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This week’s If We Can Do It is with Jack Oldham aka the Rambling Northerner, who is currently on his grown up gap year in Australia….
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My guidebook began its description of Oudtshoorn with the sentence: “If you’re an ostrich, this is the place to come for work”. Now if that…
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One of the things I’ve always loved most about travelling is meeting people and listening to their stories. I guess it’s the journalist in me…
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I’m always fascinated when you can see someone’s personality reflected in a building they have created: from Gaudi’s obsession with detail in La Sagrada Familia…