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  • 15. Liming – The Emerald Isle
  • 15. Liming – Bathsheba
  • 15. Liming – Settling
  • 16. Sand in the Sandwiches
  • 17. Airplanes
  • Acknowledgements

Monthly Archives: December 2016

STRING KNIFE AND PAPER – Postscript

After that day, I continued to travel far and wide on that trip.  A ferry ride to Zanzibar (where I celebrated my birthday), via Harare I spent a few days in Lusaka.  Via Lilongwe I travelled up, c…

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Posted on December 4, 2016 by Alan Mills. Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Airplanes – Reflecting on the African Transect

The hotel Karibu was an amazing place.  Out in the northern suburbs of Dar,  on the Msasani Peninsula, the kind of twee, manicured and spacious neighbourhood that you find in any African city wher…

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Airplanes – Leg Four and Dar

We traced a ridge of mountains down to the coast and swung out over the Zanzibar Channel before coming down to land in the western sprawl of Dar itself.  The tempo of life had changed again and I w…

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    • On the Edge (11)
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    • St Vincent and Bequia (10)
    • The Emerald Isle (8)
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  • Oware (20)
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