Author Archives: Tanad

We land at 4 in the morning in Nairobi. By lunchtime, after a sleepy 5-hour drive, we are already down South in the world-famous Masai Mara National Reserve, along the Tanzanian border. Our Croatian friend Bartol, who has lived in Kenya with his family for the same three years we have lived in Gabon, wantsContinue reading “Out of Gabon”

When we were there two years ago for half a day, we did not get such a good impression of Port-Gentil (POG), Gabon’s second largest city, and its economic capital thanks to the dozens of offshore oil platforms that have been lighting up its sea and sky at night for decades now. Indeed, the goldenContinue reading “POG!”

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Things have changed a lot since the days when Sao Tomé was called “chocolate island” (see this earlier post). Many other African countries started growing cocoa and exporting it massively, while the main plantations in Sao Tomé have gradually shut down. However, cocoa still can be found growing wildly all around the island and today,Continue reading “Chocolate island”

It’s October and I am back to Sao Tomé, this time well-accompanied: it’s the four of us now and two Parisian accomplices, tasting this unique Afro-Portuguese island vibe. We make it to the Southern tip of the island, past the village of Porto Alegre, where the beaches are endless and sandy and people are scarce.Continue reading “Journey to the center of the planisphere”

Hello! We have not written anything here in a long time. But all is still well in Gabon, we have started our third year here actually, and the four of us are fully busy at school or at work. We are lucky to have already seen quite a lot of the country, and we doContinue reading “Still around”