Mexico City & Teotihuacan, October 2009

Mexico City & Teotihuacan, October 2009

Mexico keeps surprising us, and its capital was no exception. It was not without a certain amount of apprehension that we took a bus into one of the largest cities in the world, having been warned of traffic, crime, pollution and influenza… Mexico city probably has all of these, air pollution being the most visible.  Despite these characteristics, which are shared by many large metropolitan areas, Mexico is a very livable and diverse city with many decentralized neighborhoods, residential areas,…

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An ocean but no boats…

An ocean but no boats…

High time to post something in the sailing section of the blog. After all, we’ve been living next to the Atlantic ocean for some four months now. One of the upsides of being posted to Dakar it seemed was its location inside the Atlantic ocean and the existence – according to Google – of several yacht clubs and marinas. Alas, after some exploration and discussion with expats here, only one of the clubs is still in existence, but reduced to…

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How to use this website

How to use this website

This site currently has three sections, shown in the top right corner of the page, wherever you are on the site: The 2009-11 section will eventually contain all our posts from the original SnailTrails around-(some of)-the-world tour. Project Sail documents our adventures on the water. And the Sahel link – you guessed it – brings you to posts on Senegal and surroundings. If you click on one of these links, the site will show only posts from that section, in…

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