Travellers on Tour

If you travel long distances with any regularity chances are you have had a long stop-over in one airport or another. If you are not at one of the airports with cheap-ish pay per hour hotels in the transit lounges then you have to try and find somewhere - that does not have hard seats [...]

Arusha is a hotbed of tourist activity - it is a key location for climbing kilimonjara, several national parks like the Serengeti and Manyara, or just a couple of hours drive from the world renowned Ngorongoro Crater. Over the past 10 years the United Nations have been in the city administering the war tribunal so [...]

There have been several occasions when I have been travelling that flight connections have not worked out how I anticipated - I have been faced with the fact that I will potentially have to spend a good bit of money of airport accommodation or travel away from the airport to find a cheaper place to [...]

I was recently lucky enough to go and visit a friend in Northern Washington state - a border town called Lynden (the town where Smallville farm scenes are filmed). We decided to visit a bit of Canada that day - and despite a bit of hassle from the border patrol we headed for beautiful British [...]

Whenever I travel to the US - I am always amazed at the immigration declarations that you have to sign in order to enter the United States. They have questions like:

Were you a member of the Nazi party between 1938 and 1945?
Are you intent on commiting an act of terrorism on United States soil?

Realistically would [...]

Often times when you are driving in East Africa there is a high chance that you will get pulled over by the police. More often than not it will not be for any reason - it will just be because the policeman wants a bribe. There are 3 ways of dealing with this:

The [...]