Extraordinary adventures from long drive back from Festival au desert in Timbuktu to Sévaré, a ride across half of Mali. Starting early in the morning and arriving late in the evening to find there is no place to crash. What would you do?
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An apology, sort of, I guess…
10 March 2011 – 13:49
Ermmm, I don’t know how to put this. An apology is needed I guess. To you my readers. See while I was travelling many things happened to me and some of those I’ve shared with you. Some stayed in my head waiting to see the light of this diary. Some I thought I would not share for various reasons. And some that were in the making, drafts so to speak, but never made it to you. Which is a shame. Especially because the only reason for the latter was I came back home and was overwhelmed with other events, people, projects and ideas. Getting back into daily routine. So, maybe, eeerm, those road stories of mine were left lurking in the darker parts of my head waiting and hoping for better times. And it looks like now, 10 months after the coming back home, might be the time for them to resurface.
Photos from Festival au Désert 2010
7 May 2010 – 13:22
Pictures of Afel Bocoum, Amadou & Mariam, Bassekou Kouyaté and Ami Sacko, Cheick Tidiane Seck, Habib Koïté, Khaira Arby, Koudede, Mamar Kassey, Tartit, Terakaft and Tinariwen performing at Festival au Désert 2010 in Timbuktu, Mali.
Teberemt, finally…
28 March 2010 – 22:13
Enjoying the quiet life without electricity, running water or phone network in small Tuareg village of Teberemt deep in Malian bush near Burkina Faso’s border.
Back in Mali
13 March 2010 – 14:46
When you run out of options, you gotta come up with something right? So instead of going to Cotonu, Benin or Lomé, Togo I have retourned to Mopti, Mali.
Another change of plan?
3 March 2010 – 19:32
Surely not another passage to Europe? Is it possible? Apparently it is. And after all plans are there to be changed right? 😉
Obamako
21 January 2010 – 15:28
There seems to be a quiet dissatisfaction regarding the lack of news from this side of the Mediterranean so here’s the briefest of the briefest of headlines – me happy. Very happy indeed. Just in the first two weeks there was so much nice, sweet and utterly good stuff happening to me that I started read more
Enjoying it yet?
4 January 2010 – 20:04
It’s my fourth day in Mali and up till now there was nothing but pleasure. Granted the start was a bit chaotic but the rest is pure joy. I had one real worry before setting off and it almost came to fruition. The only thing I did not want to miss was my connecting flight read more
