photo: Joney
The word “park” for many many conjure up civilised, groomed lawns, flowerbeds, and patches of dappled woods. But in Africa, game parks are wild swaths of raw nature, preserved...
08/07/2016
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África
Africa’s only Spanish-speaking country is divided into two major regions – the island on which capital Malabo (which I wrote about on this blog very recently) is located, and larger Río...
12/04/2016
As a Westerner, this country at the western end of North Africa remains one of the most memorable I have ever visited, due in no small part to its “Imperial Cities”...
31/03/2016
The story of the southwest African country of Angola's only remaining nature and wildlife park, along the Atlantic coast just 70 kilometres (42 miles) south of capital Luanda, is an...
15/03/2016
by Oscar Scafidi
When you think about Spanish-speaking countries outside the mother country of Spain - well, it's all about Latin America, right? The answer is: not quite. Tucked away...
09/12/2015
I've always had a thing about the quirky little corners of this continent that’s famously a patchwork of ethnicities and accidents of history, and there are a few bits...
09/07/2015
In her seminal travel memoir In Morocco, the reknowned early-20th-century American writer Edith Wharton described travelling in this country as "like turning the pages of some illuminated Persian manuscript all adorned...
25/05/2015
As they say, April showers bring May flowers (at least in much of the northern hemisphere). And none are more spectacularly arranged than in the symphonically orchestrated extravaganzas of some of...
04/05/2015
As Spain and its society started changing more profoundly in the 1980s, it was time to update Iberia's flight crew wardrobe once again. And Elio Berhanyer, who'd been designing...
15/08/2014
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