Every traveler knows that one of the most powerful people you will meet on your gambols are the border police. They hold a double-pronged sword; the ability to either bar you from entry […]
Everything is just right in magical Montenegro
Love on the road in Sarajevo.
How many of us find the concept of love quite baffling? I can’t possibly be the only one hand half-way lifted up, emitting a squeal…”Me, me, me!” I have never quite understood […]
The anatomy of a budget trip: A behind the scenes look of what happens when we have a flight from Brussels Charleroi airport.
If you’re a hard-core traveler and have had your share of missed flights only because the airports that have budget airlines flying out from them are in the middle of nowhere, read; very […]
The dangers of traveling while black; the racial attack of Bakari Henderson.
On a night like yesterday, tossing and turning in the dark because of a toothache from a filling ‘so close to a nerve’, I turned to online news to keep me company […]
Of Bonn, Beethoven, fake news, mobile journalism, satire, conflict photography…the Deutsche Welle 2017 media conference was lit!
The Deutsche Welle media conference ended over a week ago, and I can tell you, it was lit! I was glad to have made it as a last minute arrangement went through. If you’re […]
My 6 pet peeves with travelers and travel bloggers.
This is the last post in my ‘hashtag-three-years-a-travel-blogger‘ series,…only because ever so often I see things that get smoke emitting from my nostrils and ears..in a silent fit of rage, so..how fair […]
10 things I’ve learnt from three years travel blogging
You know how you get older and become more like a sage, reading all these profound philosophical ‘self-help’ books and hanging onto deep quotes and meditating upon them until they sink in? […]
The most profound and memorable people I’ve met on my travels.
The clock has ticked aloud into my third year of blogging. WordPress has slid me a quiet message without much fun-fare; no balloons or whistles have been blown, the skies are not […]
Ten of the world’s best hospitals for medical tourism in 2017
You know you are in a good place as a globetrotter or one who works around the travel, tourism and hospitality industry when you keep on bumping into articles with quotes such […]
Black and stared at in a foreign country? Here’s a few things you can do..
I was sharing with a dutch friend the other day that sometimes I forget I’m black. Not that I’ve ever wanted to forget my roots or dark ebony complexion; but that I’ve […]
