The lack of direct flights to Croatia from the US and our attempt to fly as cheaply as possibly called for a layover in Barcelona. Great, since none of us had ever been. Bad, since we were all too tired to be tourists in Barcelona. We flew into Barcelona knowing that we would have to […]
Dubrovnik Old Town and City Walls
The Bosnia-Herzegovina road tour ended in Dubrovnik where we were dropped off near our vacation rental in Lapad. By that time, England had already scored Croatia in the World Cup semi-finals. We quickly checked in with our hosts and went out looking for a place to watch the game. We were just in time to […]
Bosnia-Herzegovina Road Trip
Bosnia wasn’t part of my plans. But then again we were three on the trip. So Sarajevo we had to go. We decided to fly from Zagreb after leaving Plitvice. I had stumbled across the Sarajevo Funky Tours website during the planning stages. They have a one way Sarajevo to Dubrovnik tour and I thought […]
Plitvice Lakes – Paradise in Croatia
I don’t remember where I first heard about Plitvice Lakes. I think once I had decided I was going to Croatia, a YouTube search showed me the wonders. Plitvice Lakes National Park holds a UNESCO World Heritage status. It’s the only reason Zagreb was on the itinerary. We took an early afternoon bus from Zagreb […]
Perfect Few Hours in Zagreb
Since we were three, we booked a triple sleeper compartment on the ÖBB Nightjet (Sparschiene) from Salzburg to Zagreb. The last time I was on a sleeper train, I was ten years old and travelling from Berlin to Brussels. I don’t remember the compartment being this tiny. Through acrobatic feats though, we each changed for […]
Half A Day In Salzburg
One of us is obsessed with The Sound of Music. Which meant we couldn’t arrive in Austria and not pass through Salzburg. So we took a nice mid-morning train ride from Vienna to the Salzburg HauptBahnhof where we stalked the luggage lockers until we successfully found one, luckily a jumbo locker, to place all our […]
A Short Stopover in Vienna
The lack of direct flights to Croatia from the US meant that we had a choice of transit points so we chose Vienna. Neither one of us had been before, so we decided to give ourselves a brief introduction. We stayed in an AirBnB in Stephansplatz in the heart of Vienna. The main highlight here […]
World Cup 2018 – No Russia For Me
FIFA World Cup 2018 has come and gone. Unlike the past tournaments in South Africa (2010) and Brazil (2014) I did not travel to Russia to be part of the celebrations. That was a very conscious decision. You can say I’m still traumatized from my ordeal with THE BOYS. But the thought of going to […]
Rubber Plantations in Ghana Replacing Food Crops
The last time I visited my father’s farm in Nzema I was twelve or thirteen years old. I don’t remember any mention of rubber plantations. Back then my parents would go to Nzema for the weekend leaving us in Accra and would return with the pickup bed loaded with palmnut, plantain, cassava, yam, snails, and […]
Nzulezo – The Ghanaian Village On Stilts
Nzulezo or Nzulezu literally translates to “on the water” in Nzema. This potential UNESCO World Heritage site is famously known as “the village on stilts”. My maternal great-great grandfather Kpole is from this village. In fact, when my parents took my sisters there last autumn, they met a relative. Now I’m in Ghana and it’s […]
A lover of mangoes. A woman - smart, without pretense, lefthanded, Afropolitan - navigating this thing called life. An unapologetic believer in social justice and karma. Choosing to radiate positive energy and be true to myself. Here, my musings.