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Coffee in Ethiopia – everything you need to know
Mark and I are both coffee lovers and one of the things we were looking forward to about our trip around Ethiopia was drinking lots of it, in the place where...
An amazing night out in Bahir Dar – ‘Take me to the Tej!’
Written below is the entry in the most recently published edition of Lonely Planet’s guide to Ethiopia, Djibouti & Somaliland which led...
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital – an Introduction
Our first impressions of Addis Ababa were of driving through wide, empty streets in the middle of the night on our way from the airport to our hotel. There...
A tour of the Angostura Distillery, Trinidad
In one of my former lives, I worked as a wine merchant and sold copious quantities of Angostura Bitters to the bartenders of London and the south-east of England. Indeed, we always had a...
Marseillan, a forgotten gem in southern France
Marseillan is a pretty little town on the southern end of the Bassin de Thau in the Languedoc region of France. Once upon a time it was a flourishing fishing centre, but it now lies all but...
A tour of the Noilly Prat distillery, Marseillan
Visiting the distillery
As a long-time lover of a good vermouth, I have often planned to visit the Noilly Prat distillery in Marseillan, Languedoc, but never quite got round to it. The...
A few days on the beach in Kovalam
When we were in Madurai preparing to leave for our Workaway project in the hills near Kodaikanal, we took the time to provisionally plan the days we would have left in...
Pondicherry – a French-Tamil jewel on the Bay of Bengal
By the time we reached Pondicherry on the coast of south-east India, we were all 'citied out' and ready for a few days of rest, relaxation and fresh sea air. 'Pondy', as it is commonly known,...
Bangalore – a city of hijra, crazy drivers and family history
Bangalore is the largest city we visited on our journey around southern India and the fourth most populous on the sub-continent behind New Delhi, Mumbai and Hyderabad. All I can say is that it...
