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An invitation to discover Africa through its gastronomy

2021.06.17 /
A Tour of African Gastronomy

A Tour of African Gastronomy

Much of a nationsโ€™ culture is defined by food. The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) has published a 90-page Tour of African Gastronomy. They suggest African cuisine is a treat hiding in plain sight that remains relatively unexplored.

The rich and endlessly diverse flavours of the continent tell stories and rituals steeped in history. Explore the legacy of centuries of amazing culinary traditions hand in hand with some of the most prominent figures of African gastronomy. Over thirty Chefs will take you on a trip around the wonderful flavours and delicacies whose preparation alone is akin to a performance.

The impossible balance between human ingenuity, natural wonder and roaring wilderness continues to fascinate travellers which turn out in flocks to explore Africa. To this day it is well known that Africa,
if anything, spells adventure. However, despite a growing number of travellers every year setting off to discover the many hidden jewels Africa has to o๎€er there is a treat hiding in plain sight that remains relatively unexplored: its cuisines.
Whereas tourists defy safaris under the blazing sun, raft down the Zambezi River and hike the Kilimanjaro, few are those that bring the African experience to their taste buds. Inexplicably, among the many treasures the continent conceals, the food remains perhaps the biggest mystery of them all.
From the notorious tajines and couscous in the north, to a long-standing tradition of barbecued goodies, as well as splendid variety of stews and hundreds of different types of breads to heartily dip into all these rich flavours, Africa truly is an atlas of flavours. Besides, the food is not only savoury but also surprisingly healthy as many dishes are based on combinations of delicious fruits and vegetables.
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The Global Peace Index 2021

2021.06.17 /

Very High

1 Icelandย ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ธ
2 New Zealandย ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฟ
3 Denmarkย ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฐ
4 Portugalย ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡น
5 Sloveniaย ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฎ
6 Austriaย ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡น
7 Switzerlandย ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ญ
8 Irelandย ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช
9 Czechiaย ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฟ
10 Canadaย ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ
11 Singapore ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฌ
12 Japanย ๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต
13 Finlandย ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ฎ
14 Norwayย ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ด

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Sir Edmund Hillaryโ€™s son is challenging Everest climbers to assist the Nepalese people during the Covid pandemic

2021.06.13 /

As Everest climbers return home from Nepal, Sir Edmund Hillaryโ€™s son, Peter Hillary, is inviting them to both celebrate their ascent, while also challenging them to give back to the Nepalese people, to assist during the Covid pandemic.

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Now, in these phenomenally challenging times in Nepal, with Covid numbers rising dramatically, with oxygen shortages and hospitals forced to turn people away to die, this is an immediate way climbers can truly give back to the country and the people they have climbed and shared their adventure with.

The Himalayan Trust, launched by Sir Edmund Hillary in 1960, is right now providing direct assistance with medical supplies to the Nepali people and the Sherpas in the Khumbu, through their long established hospitals and medical care facilities. But the challenges they are facing are immense and additional resources are needed.

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James Gingell, a burnt out civil servant, decides to trek the length of Britain

2021.06.13 /
James Gingell in Staffordshire

James Gingell (via The Guardian)

As a government civil servant, James Gingell was burnt out from working on Brexit and Covid. Trekking the length of Britain, from Landโ€™s End to John oโ€™Groats, was the change he needed.

James Gingell, via The Guardian ยป

Walking Landโ€™s End to John oโ€™Groats wasnโ€™t the original plan. All I wanted was freedom. I had worked as a civil servant for three years, first in central government as the country grappled with Brexit, then, after the pandemic hit, on the Covid response. Through the tumult, my colleagues were pleasant and supportive, and the material circumstances of my life did not change. When I took a burnout questionnaire, though, I ticked every box: tiredness, torpor, tetchiness. Iโ€™m normally a silly person. But I wasnโ€™t smiling much. Iโ€™m normally a creative person. But nothing was happening in my brain. I felt bleached.

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All I wanted was to be free, of emails and objectives and obligations which could only disappoint, of defined, quantifiable purpose. I wanted to luxuriate in pure freedom, to walk in a wild, blank void. If our culture of metrics and targets and progress were more receptive to the idea of pointlessness as a point, I might instead have quoted another naturalist, Henry David Thoreau. He wrote that creative thoughts are like birds, coming to us only if they have branches to settle. โ€œIf the grove in our minds is laid waste โ€“ sold to feed unnecessary fires of ambition โ€“ they no longer build or breed with us.โ€ I needed to do nothing but walk and wallow in swamp and marrow for the trees to heal, for the birds to come back. The walk was more to do with that.

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Ursula Martin has spent the last two years walking solo from Ukraine to the most westerly point of Spain. And her journey’s not finished.

2021.06.09 /

Jazz Nobel writing in Outdoors Magic ยป

Ursula Martin defines herself as an โ€˜extreme ramblerโ€™. And that she certainly is. Between 2014 and 2015, she walked 3,700 miles in and around her homeland of Wales, all whilst undergoing treatment for ovarian cancer. Along the way she raised over ยฃ12,000 for cancer charities and helped to draw attention to the symptoms of ovarian cancer to thousands of people.

A few years later, Ursula embarked on another trek, hitchhiking from Wales to Eastern Europe to begin a solo walk across the bulk of the continent. Starting in Ukraine, she travelled through the Balkans and into Southern Europe, steadily making her way towards the Atlantic Ocean. All was going well enough until the beginning of 2020, when a roadblock arrived in the form of a global pandemic.

Adventure Journal asks 59-year-old Erden Eruรง why he is rowing around the world, again!

2021.06.09 /
Turkish-American adventurer Erden Eruรง rowing his boat

Turkish-American record-setting adventurer Erden Eruรง rowing his boat

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In July 2007, Erden Eruรง set out from Californiaโ€™s Bodega Bay to row the Pacific Ocean in a 7.1m plywood rowboat. Five years, 11 days, 12 hours and 22 minutes later, he returned to Bodega Bay to become the first person in history to circumnavigate the world solo by human power.

Eruรง rowed across the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic Oceans and cycled across three continents: Australia, Africa and North America. En route, he also climbed Mount Kosciuszko (Australia) and Mount Kilimanjaro (Africa) and trekked the challenging Kokoda Track in Papua New Guinea. In all, he traveled 66,299km under his own steamโ€ฆ

Jeff Moag, writing in the Adventure Journal ยป

Erden Eruรง has more time at sea in a rowboat than anyone alive, nearly three years all told, including 312-days alone on the Pacific. The 59-year-old Seattleite was the first person to circumnavigate the globe alone and under his own power, crossing the worldโ€™s three great oceansโ€”Pacific, Indian and Atlanticโ€”in an expedition that took five years and consumed his life savings.

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