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This site accompanies the travel guide The Rough Guide to First-Time Africa. It's not an alternative to the book, but includes samples of the contents, a blog page and the opportunity to comment on posts and pages and put questions to the authors.
Static web pages ("The book", "The authors" etc) are tabbed up on the left beneath the photo of Lamu waterfront. Blog posts all appear on the "Home" page, at the far left, with the most recent post at the top. Each blog post is tagged with subject and/or country categories, allowing you to access the posts you're interested in using the Category dropdown menu, below.
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Last 10 blog posts
- British tourist, visitor and resident deaths in Africa: 325 people in 12 months out of more than 3 million British visitors
- Surprised 2174 Brits died abroad of “unknown causes” in 2010: new figures from the FCO
- Accidents abroad: Britons killed in Africa
- Britons murdered in Africa: very few indeed
- Improved security in the Sahel: military escorts dropped in northern Niger
- Rodrigues on the radio
- KCB Safari Rally 2011 – take care on those roads!
- The Lake of Stars Festival
- Zambia travel update
- Cycling in Uganda
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Richard’s recent tweets
- The chlorinated chickens are coming home to roost: brilliant, crystalline journalism from @GeorgeMonbiot @guardian theguardian.com/commentisfree/… 2 days ago
- RT @SavageWiderness: Get ready for the next big thing at Savage Wilderness Safaris: a 68-day cycling trip from Nairobi to Cape Town —> http… 1 week ago
- Such a beautiful, underrated, joyful, *funny* country. #Sierraleone twitter.com/suewattuk/stat… 1 week ago
- Just when you thought there was nothing more you could bear to read about #B****t, try this excellent metaphorical… twitter.com/i/web/status/8… 1 week ago
- Simon Heffer's comment abt #Northampton Uni's weird-sounding "Wastes Management and Dance" degree was cheap, not worthy of a graduate #bbcaq 1 week ago
- RT @PNantulya: MUST READ ON THE KENYAN ELECTIONS: africanarguments.org/2017/07/10/ken… @Nanjala1 @livmuk @KwameRugunda @Uwihanganye_A 2 weeks ago
- Something joyful out of something pretty sick. Love it! twitter.com/nickkehoe007/s… 3 weeks ago
- Amazing new anti plastic bottle schemes coming up. Go @nataliefee ! twitter.com/willknocker/st… 4 weeks ago
- RT @JosephWinter: Kenya's main political parties have launched their manifestos - how do they measure up? bbc.co.uk/news/live/worl… via @BBC… 4 weeks ago
- Good news from the @coopuk Great campaign! twitter.com/stopfundinghat… 4 weeks ago
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Category Archives: Kenya
KCB Safari Rally 2011 – take care on those roads!
The KCB Safari Rally happens this weekend and will basically clog up much of the route between Nairobi and Namanga in Kenya– ie the northern part of the road between Nairobi and Arusha in Tanzania. If you’re heading for Amboseli, … Continue reading
Posted in Buses, Kenya, Roads, Tanzania
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Maasai Mara wildlife numbers
The BBC’s 2 June 2011 story about a “crash” in wildlife numbers in the Maasai Mara region has been widely picked up, in most cases without further comment. I don’t think we should be complacent, but I’m not getting a sense of … Continue reading
