40 Lonely Planet Bloggers Release Stunning Ebook
It’s launch day for a brilliant project: a free (yes, no cost) and stunning E-Book by the Lonely Planet bloggers from the Blogsherpa programme. Continue reading
Category: Writing
Definitive Traveler’s Library
I don’t know if you’ve heard of Wangari Maathai? She is a Kenyan environmentalist and all round bad-ass change-maker. Well, you’d say bad-ass if you were in Government in Kenya in the 90′s, but we’re using it in a positive sense here. As in, the kind of person you want on your team when you set out to change the world. What has Wangari Maathai done? She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004… Continue reading
Five Years of Faking It: Part II
I am also awed by Dolly Parton. She might not be your cuppa, but you can’t question that infectious spirit and her passion and commitment. Decades of it. You could say the same of Leonard Cohen, commitment- and passion-wise. (I bet ya never seen those names in the same paragraph before?) Cos Leonard Cohen didn’t write brilliant song lyrics for the past forty odd years because he wanted to, but because he had to. Continue reading
Five Years of Faking It: Part I
But then you have your Clint Eastwood’s and The Smiths and the Dame Judi’s. “Go ahead, make my seven thousand awesomely committed days, because I started something I couldn’t finish, my Shakespearean sister!” But don’t you just want to punch people who say: “If you love what you do you never have to work a day in your life”? Great for those who love what they do. But life is too short to not have something truly bum-worthy to commit to. Continue reading
To D or Not to D
(As an Australian woman) you know you’re in a cross-cultural relationship when…You shake a large flying bug from your hair and say to your partner, “Oh it’s just one of those bugs you used to eat as a child…” Continue reading
World Cup Regression
In high school he told me that, when we were in primary school, I’d called him all sorts of racist names. I really thought he was joking. I couldn’t remember calling him names at all. But he insisted I had. Continue reading
The topless insanity of itchy appreciation
I’m a woman on the brink of insanity with itchiness. It’s a painful, prickling itchy. But mostly I’m worried about reverse culture shock, adapting to a culture of affluence and forgetting to appreciate the simple, but precious things in life, like running water. Continue reading
12 personal (and maybe surprising) things about me
I have a scar three quarters across the middle of my tongue where it cut in half when I was a little girl. I was speeding on my tricycle when I hit the stairs, mouth open, and my tongue split. Ouch. Continue reading
Expat life in Ghana
If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to live and work–be an expat!–in a developing nation. Or, specifically, sub-Saharan Africa, or maybe even Ghana, then this is the post for you. Continue reading
Facing up to an Arms Dealer: Part II
This story continues on from Part I on Wednesday. Read Facing up to an Arms Dealer in the Ivory Coast, Part 1 before continuing on to this second half of the story. —- The vehicle left the station in The … Continue reading
Facing up to an arms dealer in the Ivory Coast—an education with a difference.
By Godwin. This is a story of something that happened to me almost 10 years ago now. In 2001, after graduating from senior high school, I decided to travel to the Ivory Coast with a friend to look for a … Continue reading
In Honour of Wangari Maathai on International Women’s Day 2010
Today I published a post at our other blog, This is Ghana, in honour of Africa’s greatest living woman, Wangari Maathai, and partly to urge Ghanaian women to question the status quo in Ghana from a female and environmental perspective. Check it out and let us know what you think. Do you know Ghana’s Wangari Maathai? Continue reading
