Just a funny ending to my trip as I can't go anywhere without something happening. Got off the yacht but because it had rained so much the car couldn't get down the track the last few miles. So we hijacked a fisherman there and piled everything into his tuk tuk with us perched on the sides and trundled off over miles of muddy swampy sand. We were met by Mr One Leg and off we went. Got to the local airport and there are 3 scanners, all of which I set off. The sec...

I have spent the last 4 days on a yacht sailing around isolated beaches and islands in the Red Sea. It started with the driver collecting us to only have one real leg (left), one wooden leg (right) and one of these old fashioned crutches that Long John Silver had. He seemed to drive ok so I didn't ask any questions. It was a bit of a faff getting in and out of the car at check points - open the door, get crutch from footwell, whack you with it trying to manoeuvre...

After 10 days here, I could happily live in Sudan if it wasn't for the military coup, sharia law and poor wifi. I'm now back in Khartoum for a couple of days after having an amazing time travelling around the country looking at pyramids, desert, markets and painted tombs. My Arabic is going well, I now know pretty much all the parts of the human body, clothes and a lot of animals by going through their noises. We got to back to Khartoum yesterday- there was ano...

Well today's another day. There are people solving world problems and here I am getting over-excited because I found a lost sock in my pile of t-shirts. I have spent the last 24 hours in a cemetery watching whirling dervishes and feeling sick with the incense that was shooken all over me. Lots of very mentally sick people there in 'trances'. The whole thing reminded me of these nutty American preachers who run around speaking in tongues. Today I got a rusty bo...

I'm at last off to Sudan! This has been cancelled and rearranged, I think 5 times because of first COVID and then the coup. There still seem to be problems there but it's apparently easily avoided as long as you know what day of the week it is. I said this to the doctor who is operating on me when I get back and he said 'oh, Tuesday you get shot, Wednesday you don't, ha ha' and when I said yes, that's right, he looked at me as if I was insane. I was originally c...