Category: Posts
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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. […]