i am a lefty

going out to dinner with a french guy in Congo: "what red wine do you have?" he asks the waiter well, there's a bordeaux......

so now the real story. it turns out i met someone who actually knows the french tourist who got taken by the mamiwata...according to him, t...

the true story of the mamiwata. three mondeles arrived at base camp, a lady, her ex-husband and another guy. the lady and husband accompan...

so alicia wanted to celebrate her 37th birthday by spending the weekend outside of Brazzaville, in the Lesio-Louna reserve, a few hours dri...

so on sunday it was so hot we went to the pool. felt pretty classy to be sipping a gin and tonic and then get a call from an artist i had m...

so one of the things with having a drone is you aren't really allowed to fly it anywhere. in DRC i know a guy who is the head of his l...

so one of the reasons i came to kinshasa was to do a web mapping training, where you make interactive maps for websites. the office kept as...

i was walking back from the office on my first day, trying to retrace my recalled steps from the morning, through a significantly different...

hey elvis, who is in charge of the internet here at the office? "c'est Rafa" (it's Rafa) ok, where is Rafa? "C...

the night before my trip to Kinshasa we went to the Berlinale to see Felicité , a new congolese movie which won the silver bear.  i have s...

the thing with a lot of south africa is that you might not notice it right away, but soon you do - all the white people are well off and l...

So we are working on this conservation agricultural project in zambia, and we see a lot of cattle ranchers, or cow herders or whatever. Th...

This is for my uncle because all of his Gabon stories predate the telephone :) So we are setting up these cellphones for a project in Z...

Ok so i didn't write much during my trip to Myanmar, as it turns out i was quite busy at the office and often working late, and by the...

one of the unfortunate things some people pick up here is asia speak. i'm not too proud of it, but i can't stop it and hey i'm ...

So i had a friend from berlin visiting Yangon and we were on the usual downtown tour of tasty shan noodles, followed by weird stinky chin...

so the other day we went to the bogyoke market to feed my insatiable appetite for fabrics and baskets. carsten yawned and followed all bore...

so it's safe to say it's actually more expensive to cook at home than to eat out. mostly because you either get your vegetables at ...