Dear Manchester Suicide Bomber, While the names of the dead aren't familiar, the places they're from are. All the schools they went to and other places in North Cheshire and South Manchester where I spent most of my own childhood. These are not places where people talk politics - well, they probably... Continue Reading →
Congo Nile Trail: Day 1
How to spend annual leave? For many, not a difficult question. Perhaps on a European beach? Or camping somewhere in Britain? I have other ideas. I rather like a cultural experience that's logistically difficult to organise and with a moderate serving of mild suffering (though only by first-world-problem standards, naturally). It's in this spirit that... Continue Reading →
Ntarama Genocide Memorial
Robbie recommended that we see some genocide sites an hour or so from Kigali. He feels that these give a more situated and real meaning to events than the museum in Kigali. 'We' are Rachel and Beck (two Australian medical students on elective here), Thierry (a Swiss medical student), Lara (a medical student from the Netherlands... Continue Reading →
