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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 @ExpertAfrica: The @FCDOtravelGovUK #traveladvice service seriously needs to take a more nuanced view of its blanket advisory against a… 1 day ago
- When is @FCDOtravelGovUK going to review its #traveladvice on every country in Africa? Communities and the wildlife… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 2 days ago
- RT @lonelyplanet: A new website is making it easier than ever to tick off your African safari bucket list 🦓🦒🦁🐆🐘 fal.cn/3ahhm 2 days ago
- This is all going well then. twitter.com/antartica81/st… 3 days ago
- RT @ExtinctionR: Boris, what was that you tweeted today about it being 'completely unacceptable to seek to limit the public's access to new… 1 week ago
- RT @MarieAnnUK: Desperate Boris Johnson - Hey Bozo why don't you tweet this? https://t.co/4vnrVKFDxi 1 week ago
- Plus one! twitter.com/philippesibell… 3 weeks ago
- Shouldn’t be shocked, but still stunned at the collapse of STA Travel. My first real job in the 1980s. Lovely compa… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 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
