Adorably Cute Baby Elephants: Nairobi’s Elephant Orphanage
The David Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage, Nairobi, is a wonderfully insightful place. Whilst visiting I had lots of fun, however I also e...
Africa
Lessons Learned On Mount Kilimanjaro
On June 23rd, 10 of us with Team World Vision set out to conquer Kilimanjaro and change children's lives. As I return from Kilimanjaro,...
Face Fear
I’ve never been into adventure sports before, maybe because I never got any opportunity or maybe I never tried for one as I never felt ...
Twenty Six Hours in Alexandria, Egypt
A fast-moving French train leaving from Ramses Station in Cairo will take you to the ancient city of Alexandria in a comfortable three ...
Paradise on Lake Kivu
I confess that I hadn’t expected to discover a tranquil retreat overlooking the troubled Democratic Republic of Congo, but that is what...
The Lost Pyramid of Meidum
We had heard about the lost pyramid of Meidum, the disastrous and forgotten precursor to the Great Pyramid of Giza. We wanted to see th...
Cairo Coffee Shops
Sitting in crowded outdoor Cairo coffee shops, drinking mint tea and partaking of the occasional shisha, talking for hours while time s...
Climbing Mount Sinai
Jerry and I were in Egypt. It was a dream come true. We’d already been to Jordan and Israel on this trip and had seen and experienced s...
Climbing to the Roof of Africa
When I was at university, I had a book that I wrote little bits about life in as I learnt them. It had quotes, recipes, tickets from ev...
Kyangwali Refugee Camp: Between Hope and Despair
Soon after I arrived in Uganda, I had the opportunity to visit Kyangwali Refugee Camp in Hoima district, western Uganda. COBURWAS, a pa...