The War Train
February 23rd 2008 "I would sooner live like a Dervish with the Mahdi than go out to dinner every night in London"
General Gordon (who was defeated and killed in the Mahdist Siege of Khartoum, 1885).
Sudan gets a lot of bad press, with good reason. But I found the people to be the friendliest and most hospitable I've met anywhere in the world. There were numerous incidents during my time in Sudan when people
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Brian Davies
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En Route to Nairobi
Slept here in 1957 German beer at six shillings a bottle. See http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/12/Sudan_Wadi_halfa_RR_Hotel