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Relaxing in the Keralan backwaters
Friday, December 4th, 2009I’ve travelled a bit and seen many inspiring things but those that I fancy the most are places of natural beauty - mountains, the jungle, countryside fields, waterfalls, and the beach, to name a few. After this trip, the mountains of Nepal and the backwaters of Kerala, India were the highlights. .
Anyway I’ve been [...]
Small dose of Varanasi
Sunday, November 29th, 2009So I’m in Varanasi - one of the holiest cities in the Hindu religion - and I’m sick. I’d only been here a couple of hours when I started feeling the rumblings in my tummy. The prime suspect is a vegetarian meal I had at a local restaurant - I ordered bruschetta and I [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »>Nepal into India, on foot…
Saturday, November 28th, 2009On Thursday morning I left the Pokhara Valley on a tourist bus (so-called only because most of the passengers were tourists but which was in fact a ‘local’ bus - see below!) and headed south to Lumbini - the birthplace of the Buddha. The bus took the Siddhartha Highway (note: Gautam Siddhartha was Buddha’s name [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »>Namaste Nepal
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009Been a busy trip so far! Olivia joined me on my last of three days in Kathmandu and then yesterday morning, we flew to Pokhara with Buddha Air on a twin-prop airplane! Pokhara is a Nepali town nestled at the foothills of the Annapurna Range of the Himalayas. Unfortuately her trip was a short [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »>Itinerary for Nepal and India
Saturday, November 21st, 2009I started my 15-day backpacking trip through Nepal and India yesterday, by flying into Kathmandu.
I’ll be staying here for a few days - but have not yet made a real plan of things to see or do. At the moment I’m just wandering the streets talking to some of the locals. Today I’m planning to [...]
Let’s Party for Africa
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009Last Friday night, a private fundraiser was held here in Abu Dhabi to support the Tabasamu Education Fund, a Kenya-based charity I have been working closely with for over a year (my role is primarily marketing / strategic partnerships and fundraising efforts here in the UAE). See end of this post for more info on what the charity [...]
Tags: abu dhabi, africa, kenya
Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »>CNN.com: Living in a cage in Hong Kong
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009The below article and video from CNN shocked me at first - to see that people could live like this.
Then, toward the end of the video, commentary from the government is provided and made me think again. If what they say is true, and people can live in better conditions somewhere else but choose not to (for whatever reason) [...]
Life is short, be kind and patient with the ones you love.
Friday, October 16th, 2009Whenever I watch this video it moves me to tears. The number of times Ive been rude or impatient (or even mean) with my parents for the silliest reasons…. Even today, I still occasionally make dumb and hurtful remarks which belie the behaviour expected of a 31-year old man.
When I was young, I often [...]
Tags: family
Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »>Video of the effects of drought in Kenya
Tuesday, October 13th, 2009Hi,
Further to my earlier posts/articles/photos from my trip to Kenya, I just watched a a recent video from CNN highlighting the effects of drought on the Samburu tribes in that country. The area focused on by the video is not far from where I visited in September 2009 (Isiolo, in Eastern Province). I thought [...]
Orphaned children in Ugandan village
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009This is an extremely compelling and impactful video. I urge you to watch this. There are children all over Africa who have been orphaned by civil war or tribal conflict or AIDS or famine and become the ‘head’ of their households, …taking care of their brothers and sisters, when they themselves are barely old enough [...]
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