Somalia: Nuruddin Farah

Somalia. For most, this country’s name conjures images of hunger, civil war, militiamen perched behind a machine gun on the back of a pick-up, terrorist attacks and piracy. When 25 Continue Reading →
Books I love as I travel
Somalia. For most, this country’s name conjures images of hunger, civil war, militiamen perched behind a machine gun on the back of a pick-up, terrorist attacks and piracy. When 25 Continue Reading →
We had just landed at Savannah airport in Georgia and the taxi driver who was bringing us to the Bed & Breakfast we had booked for the week-end welcomed us Continue Reading →
I have been several times to Kenya, but I can’t say I know the country well. I was often passing by Nairobi and its surroundings, but only for a few Continue Reading →
For many, Boston evokes prestigious universities such as Harvard, M.I.T. or Boston University. Even if the first two are actually located on the other side of the Charles River, in Continue Reading →
We have several photographs from Ethiopia in our living room. There are four enlargements of pictures my wife Céline took during our trip in 1995. Superb views of the Simien Continue Reading →
For almost six months, I lived in Göttingen on the Paulinerstraße. It was the length of a university semester as an Erasmus exchange student. That’s where I learned German, even Continue Reading →
When the increase in COVID-19 cases forced us to cancel our return to Europe this winter, we started to look for options for the break between Christmas and New Year. Continue Reading →
We have a game in our family when one of us is traveling. We send a picture of the place we are in to our Whatsapp group and ask, “Where Continue Reading →
There are different ways to combine travelling and reading. One, which I often practice, is to bring on your trip a book about your destination. Another one, less premeditated, is Continue Reading →
I had started « The Fortunes of Wangrin » (L’étrange destin de Wangrin) » by Malian author Amadou Hampaté Bâ in the flight bringing me to Bamako. Every night I continued reading a Continue Reading →