Food, Drink & Travel

Tanzania has some of the best wildlife viewing in Africa. The Serengeti with its endless plains and the biggest migration on earth, Tarangire with it’s unique landscape populated with elephants, Lake Manyara with dense forest and tree climbing lions and of course, Ngorongoro, a magnificent extinct volcano teaming with wildlife. Spending time in each park, [...]

We arrive at the edge of the Sahara at the end of a long day. This is Morocco, and three dusty days after the cacophony of Marrakech, our travels have brought us through the red earth and mineral hues of the Atlas mountain villages to the salt-white brilliance of the ancient, Berber kingdom of Sijilmassa [...]

Greeks are friendly people. Particularly friendly – according to certain travel writers – are the inhabitants of the island of Kythnos. Statements such as these make me curious to investigate whether they hold water or not.
´Welcome to Kythnos´ is written in blue letters on the white paper tablecloth that a young waiter is spreading on [...]

Nauders – Landeck – B 315
A serpentine of street, it curves and curves, leading downwards, riverwards, valleywards, inn-wards.
A white horse on a green field.
Lying there, dead like Sunday, dead like one wrong step and all.
A river, the Inn.
Its water glacier-coloured, a melange of winter and spring, running through July, carrying the taste of white peeks [...]

You might have noticed that I’m a bit late this month – blame an excess of yule-tide relaxation. And continuing the relaxed feel into the merry month of January, this month’s article contains hardly any rants (well not serious ones anyway). By the way, thanks Dave for the prompt and the idea.
Why pick on business [...]