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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
- RT @ChrisStosWright: Embarrassed that this is the first I knew we have a #TTG30under30 member in our midst at Sunvil! Great to read the ar… 21 hours ago
- Breathtaking quote from the shameless @ZacGoldsmith - thank you John! The hypocrisy of this government and their m… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 1 week ago
- RT @BrexitInCourt: The @UKHouseofLords MUST force the release of the #RussianReport before passing the Brexit Bill. It is not being swept… 1 week ago
- RT @paulakahumbu: .@kwskenya The Govt shd b t/ role model 4 moral authority - how can we ask others to conserve wildlife outside parks whe… 1 week ago
- How much British voters have been played is truly staggering. Extraordinary Reuters investigation. twitter.com/guyverhofstadt… 1 week ago
- Hear hear! twitter.com/justinmfrancis… 2 weeks ago
- Bravo that man! Now that’s what I call a letter. @guardian https://t.co/MWCwVIszVA 2 weeks ago
- “Mike”... hahaha This is like IR by numbers, like painting by numbers. And you still end up with a terrible pictur… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 2 weeks ago
- Glorious moment! Thank heavens for experts, competence, patience and good humor! Meanwhile, somewhere in #Mustique… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 2 weeks ago
- RT @LackOfToast: Of course he did. How else are they supposed to take positions that'll pay off as the markets react? https://t.co/A1rQwKhi… 2 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
