Like a rabbit in the headlights. Off an incoming SUV. Right on top of me. The basic thoughts as I arrived, bleary eyed, into Koh San Road at 6am where the previous nights stragglers were staggering home after the previous nights exertions. From an isolated beach hours and hours from anywhere without even a paved road to the tourist trap to beat them all, and what a shock to the system. Arriving in a few hours before Pete meant at least I could get a nap and a sho...

Ma Dernier journee de Madagacar, Afrique... Here I am in Antananarivo (Tana), incredibly - I now i keep on saying that, but this time it really is true, really really!! - on my last day in Africa I am actually sending this from the airport as I await my flight to Bangkok to meet Pete. Its hard to put into words how excited I am about meeting up with Pete, so I won't try! I have also just realised that I am heading to my last continent that i have not as yet ...

The Blue Ventured experience was more or less totally what I hoped it would be in all the best ways without actually being able to envisage what it would actually be like and what it would involve. So something close to 25 of us were loaded onto the camion and we all said farewell to technology, food of any complexity and rolled out of Tulear at 11pm bound for the site at Andavadoaka. We were told to expect a trip from about 20-36 hours conditions dependent, but ...

I commenced writing this blog after waking up on the Rift Valley Railways (RVR) Mombasa to Nairobi overnight service, onmy final full day on continental Africa. It was 0653 am and the ASUS was proving to be a great little gadget for getting some work in when sleeping is no longer an option but not much else is! This line is one of the few still working in Africa and it is an experience in itself, one to be tried out if you ever get the chance. I am now finishing ...

Now something must have happened in the night between Ireland and Tanzania. For the last decade and beyond Ireland has been the only country in the world whose citizens Tanzania welcomed through their borders without asking for the usual $US50 in return. However Ire-Tanzanian relations have obviously taken a major turn for the worse in the last few months as now the Irish are the only nationality (bar Americans - but they don't count, do they?) that have to pay $...