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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
- Everyone should listen to this. Salutary doesn’t touch it… twitter.com/c_kenyon1/stat… 4 days ago
- I've just signed @DailyMirror's 38 Degrees petition calling on @bbc to re-instate @GaryLineker to #motd… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 1 week ago
- Big shout out to the outstanding team @KichecheCamps #KichecheBush for excellent guiding from Benja and warm hospit… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 3 weeks ago
- Back in the Mara ecosystem for @ExpertAfrica Many thanks @KichecheCamps #KichecheValley for a fab stay! Great tea… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 3 weeks ago
- Delighted to be back in Kenya! #KichecheValley @KichecheCamps https://t.co/brchftYNN1 3 weeks ago
- No extremist, no racist. twitter.com/DoubleDownNews… 1 month ago
- Monbiot on Starmer and Corbyn. We need much more evidence-based analysis like this in the MSM (#r4Today?) about wha… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 1 month ago
- RT @jamilaji: With global warming and climate change ever more of acute concern, North South Travel is all the more valuable. Whether for b… 1 month ago
- Amazingly moving #Syvlia at #TheOldVic - fantastic production. A long time since I’ve cried in the theatre. Just ou… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 1 month ago
- RT @WillHastingsUK: Great to see more new British musical theatre taking root. #Sylvia #TheOldVic https://t.co/Xy6s5cMSSi 1 month ago
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Category Archives: Roads
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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Roads in DRC
This is a perennial subject. Roads in the Democratic Republic of Congo are just so unpredictable and can delay travel literally for weeks. A compelling, brilliantly edited film shown on Al-Jazeera recently, “Hazardous trucking in DR Congo” provides a graphic account … Continue reading
Posted in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo, Lubumbashi, Roads
Tagged Congo, DRC, Roads
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First-Time Africa: know before you go 