I didn’t have any intention of coming back to Tanzania and when I said goodbye to people, most of them told me I’d back. I laughed at them but it seems they knew more than me. The UK was a very different place to the last time I was there. The place is depressed, people… Read More »
I definitely cannot bear the thought of a weekend in Morogoro and so I tolerate the five hour journey on a Friday and Monday. Last week I arrived at Morogoro bus station to find a bus about to leave and jumped on it. I couldn’t work out why the man took my ticket, swapped it… Read More »
Why isn’t Sibiu on the travel map? It was a huge surprise when I got here that it was so beautiful. I thought nothing could top Brasov but this is at least 50% nicer. The old town is large and pedestrianised, organised, clean and lined with pavement cafes and restaurants. Like Brasov though, it’s too… Read More »
Last time I came to the part of Romania was around 30 years ago and I was impressed with Brasov and Moeciu de Sus. Moeciu is a small village in the Carpathian Mountains and I still have photos from when I was here last of me sitting in the sun on a hillside. Things have… Read More »
It had been a long time since I was last in Brasov. I liked it then and I like it now. However I am not sure whether my memory is faulty or whether graffiti is a permanent fixture in these beautiful old towns. It was almost the first thing I noticed when I got to… Read More »
I have decided to come to Romania because it’s one of the very few countries which will let us in from Tanzania with quarantine. I am not sure why because I would have thought we would be the riskiest country to allow in. I ask no questions, I am just grateful. When I get to… Read More »
Bucharest is a lovely city on first impression. It has wide boulevards, trees, lots of little parks and bigger parks and excellent cycle lanes. I am used to seeing sharing schemes in China but had never seen shared scooters before I got to Bucharest. The Uber and Splash scooters are all over the city, sometimes… Read More »
The tide was in so I couldn’t walk on the beach at the hotel so I went along the road and then joined the beach further along where there was a greater expanse of sand. So local women said I was not allowed to take pictures of their seaweed hanging up to dry. It seemed… Read More »
I just checked and I didn’t go to Zanzibar at all during 2020. The whole place was full of COVID at that time anyway thanks to the pane loads of Russians and Eastern Europeans which we welcomed with open arms. Come to our paradise and bring your diseases, we don’t care as long as you… Read More »
The day I arrived in Kilwa I had the beach to myself. The next evening as the sun was getting low in the sky the beach started filling up with people. Before long the sun had gone and the beach was alive with women in their most colourful flowing robes, young girls with make-up and… Read More »