Our guidebook of Kenya considered the road south from Lodwar towards Kitale “diabolical”, an hardly recognizable stretch of pavement laid in the 1980s and abandoned thereafter. After ten kilometres, when Pierre had what felt like a millionth flat tire, and a white truck approached our location on a parallel sandy […]

I am not going to lie, we were suffering from Ethiopia-fatigue when we left the Forty Springs Hotel‘s shady garden in Arba Minch. With our eyes on the prize, Kenya, we pressed on towards one of Ethiopia’s most distinctive region: the hot and dry Lower Omo Valley and its many […]

From the 2,400-metre high ridge at Lalibela it is a nice descent on pavement towards the airport, and another snapped brake cable for Pierre! The low quality spare parts we have been able to find locally, combined with Ethiopia’s dramatic topography have seen us restocking weekly with these useless cables, […]

On the list of nomadic peoples we would like to meet and learn from stands the tall and skinny Afars of the Danakil Depression. Pastoralists in search of grass for their animals, the Afar people also collect salt from mineral deposits—created as water from the Red Sea repeatedly flooded the Depression […]

Transparency has become more important to me over time. My point of view is that if people were more open about their struggles we would realise that none of us have it all figured out, that we are just humans with our doubts and fears. So, I will say that […]