Tag: experience
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The Surcuito.
One of the upsides of the madness of quarantines around the world is that it has forced people to go outside more. When you can’t go “inside” and meet others, it seems the natural trajectory has been to spend more time outside where there is space for everyone. If Covid has brought anything positive it…
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Introducing Odzala
One of my friends is a life coach and she is constantly talking about the Law of Attraction and the power of manifestation – that is attracting what you want by changing the energy you put out into the world. I feel this is perhaps a more formal way of saying I like to cast…
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A Gorilla encounter
We have just returned from an amazing expedition to Odzala – Kokoua National Park in the Republic of the Congo (aka Congo-Brazzaville not the Congo where Virunga is). Before I get into downloading, editing and combining images and videos and posting about what an experience this was and how our adventure unfolded, I wanted to…
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What’s in a name?
One of the most fascinating things I have encountered in Africa are people’s names. I have found them fascinating because they are so very different from the names I encountered in my “western” life. I have met someone called Orange that worked in the same team as someone named Juice; I have met Happiness, Pretty…
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Not meant to be
Every now and again my inspiration runs dry. The ideas in my head are endless but the right frame of mind to sit down and put it down in that word document in my computer has been put aside briefly mainly due to physical exhaustion. After telling everyone about my scorpion incident and recalling that…