Category: Travel & Adventure

All the things we cannot say

People keep asking me why I am not blogging much about my time here as a volunteer doctor at Bwindi Community Hospital, Uganda. I suppose it is largely that the things I find most fascinating and the opinions I have consequently developed are not always appropriate to write about publically. Some things  might upset or …

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Monkeys, massages and money changing…

And so it begins, my new life in Uganda! My new colleague for the next 12 months, and soon to be new best friend, Dr Ceri Gallivan and I arrived in Entebbe bright and early yesterday morning and were very kindly collected from the airport courtesy of Anna and the wonderful African Roots Guest House. …

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The road to Bajhang

The road is long…with many a winding turn! The journey to Bajhang was at best arduous, at worst death defying. To say that Bajhang is remote and virtually inaccessible could even began understatement! Our bus lurched round sharp mountain bends of narrow roads with sheer drops off to the side…sometimes on both sides at once! …

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