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ARUA. Blood, sweat and very low gears in West Nile Province

May 11th 2019
The rain seemed relentless; I’d finished my breakfast and I was staring out into the wet greenness of the bush around Lake Nkuruba, I’d had another poor night’s sleep in my hut where the blanket on my bed never ever felt completely dry. The company of my fellow guests was good and the friendly staff of the picturesque lodge and campsite prepared some surprisingly good food but I was sick of ... read more

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Uganda achieved independence from the UK in 1962. The dictatorial regime of Idi AMIN (1971-79) was responsible for the deaths of some 300,000 opponents; guerrilla war and human rights abuses under Milton OBOTE (1980-85) claimed at least another 100,0... ... read more

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My first travel memories are of being car sick in the back of my dad’s Hillman Imp somewhere around Penmaenmawr on the way to Anglesea. A lay-by was quickly spotted and pulled into, once I stopped feeling queasy and I had had my gob thoroughly wiped clean by my mum’s spittle moistened hanky, we were on our way again to the paradise island that lay beyond the Menai Straits. Luckily the travel sickness stopped not long after we arrived just in time for me to get mumps. In the early seventies a week in a musty caravan in Benllech Bay was what any asthmatic little lad would want from a fa... full info

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