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Bad nights

The place we’re staying in Jambiani is one of those that looks really good on Airbnb, and has all that is advertised, but is just dinghier, darker and has other defects that are hard to identify without seeing the place. One is that our rooms are set up so that air circulation is quite blocked […]

Sound investments

The property market in Pakistan is…. not on the level. This is the Gujranwala I know – unfortunately the image doesn’t have a creative commons license so I can’t reproduce it, but rest assured, this is Gujranwala.

Stand on Zanzibar

Which is where I am, and it’s been a very long time indeed since I posted anything other than a frontpagefury and even those, I must admit, were stored up and posted in a couple of highly delayed batches. So here we are on the island of Zanzibar, with its dhows and fierce white light […]