• A week in Extremadura
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    A week in Extremadura

    I am pleased to have been asked by my sister, Kate, to be the first guest writer on her blog to reflect on a week […]

  • UN13 : Climate Action : Chile
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    UN13 : Climate Action : Chile

    It’s a long flight from Turkey to Chile. Routing through Sao Paulo you are a minimum 20 hours travelling or if you get it wrong […]

  • Easter Quiz Update :)
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    Easter Quiz Update ๐Ÿ™‚

    Clue No 1 Clue No 2 : the eye Fully Revealed !

  • Reflections.
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    Reflections.

    It is good to look back and reflect on my whole experience. My thoughts were this: Choose the project more carefully next time. I want […]

  • Spirit of a nation : Madagascar
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    Spirit of a nation : Madagascar

    It is great to immerse yourself in a new place for four weeks. It doesn’t make me an expert. Far from it. But it does […]

  • Ghosts
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    Ghosts

    It is a horrible irony that the word Lemur derives from the Latin word lemures, which means ghosts. Because this is exactly what they are […]

  • Easter Quiz ๐Ÿฃ
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    Easter Quiz ๐Ÿฃ

    Spot the animal in the picture.

  • One eye on the future. One eye on the past.
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    One eye on the future. One eye on the past.

    This is how the Malagasy people describe the Chameleon,with its amazing ability to independently pivot its bulging eyes in two separate directions. We all know […]

  • RN2
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    RN2

    The Route Nacionale 2 runs 345km kilometres west to east from the Madagascar capital Anatanarivo to the major port town Toamasina. Everything going in and […]

  • Amber Mountain
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    Amber Mountain

    The next stop north was the Montagne d’ Amber National Park, so named after the amber sap seeping from the Copal trees in the park. […]