Tag Archives: journey

goodbye central America…

Posted on May 8, 2012 by

I left less than a week ago, but here, high up in the icy highlands of Peru, Central America quite literally feels a world away, a day dream of warmth and sand to squeeze between my toes.

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Nicaragua, mi corizon…

Posted on April 9, 2012 by

Travelling can feel like badly planned polygamy. It is easy to fall in love many times with abandon, to draw many things and many places to your heart. I find my hands are often full. The flood of feeling can … Continue reading →

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thank you for paracetemol…

Posted on October 17, 2011 by

As predicted I got sick again so I’m glad to be working for an organisation that has a lot of doctors and a good supply of drugs! Today I left the village, the frog in the office, the yawning dead-heat dogs, the gecko under … Continue reading →

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choosing this…

Posted on October 3, 2011 by

Heya Bab, I’m in Amsterdam now on my way to another somewhere else that would have scored me points on our country competition list. I am officially kicking your ass. I sometimes think my life is lived in transit, that … Continue reading →

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the long road…

Posted on August 29, 2011 by

The road from here to there can feel like a breath or a thousand miles. It seems like but a blink when we realize we’re already there. When we see that somehow we’re at that place we were heading for … Continue reading →

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this little inch of Africa..

Posted on August 25, 2011 by

This is Africa. My intestines regularly remind me of it, in near constant protest at my continental shift.  I am stalked by pervert mosquitoes to whom clothes pose no impediment and all they want is my blood. The security regulations … Continue reading →

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the eagle has landed…

Posted on August 17, 2011 by

I arrived in Uganda late last night after what seemed like a forever of flights. There was a stop in Rwanda on the way but it was too late to see anything but an inky black speckled with distant lights,  … Continue reading →

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reading back into the black…

Posted on July 18, 2011 by

My thoughts this evening were derailed. In the bath I was brewing a post about gentleness amidst the bubbles. Then a friend who’d read my blog wrote to tell me what she’d thought of it. Oddly, that was a bit … Continue reading →

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painting my nails red…

Posted on July 2, 2011 by

In an effort at finding a way to respond to ‘how are you today?’ that is shorter than one of Shakespeare’s soliloquoys, I have been trying to give myself marks out of 10 for how I feel each day.. My … Continue reading →

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