I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there ― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Imagine, if you will, London Heathrow, Washington, Paris CDG or Canberra airports announcing that they will close for six weeks. And imagine, further, that the alternative routes to your destination, the nation's capital, are notorious for…Read more riding the rails
Streets
the road taken
'Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry' Jack Kerouac for wordpress weekly photo challenge - the road taken
shadow
I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow ― Sylvia Plath Earlier this week, my newest (and dearest) photographic friend (my Fujifilm X100T) and I were separated, irrevocably. Whether due to my being careless, and leaving it somewhere between the security check at reception and the hotel bar (unlikely), or being careless…Read more shadow
carpe diem
'The best things in life make you sweaty' ― Edgar Allan Poe My last trip to Abuja, in January, was a hectic and work filled space with little time to read, write or take photographs. Back in town today, and felt I should seize the moment. This man's purposeful stride seems to set the tone…Read more carpe diem
ambience
I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie I'm back in Abuja, reading another book, Americanah, by one of my newest discoveries, the peerless Nigerian author, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for wordpress weekly photo challenge - ambience
trace afrobeats show
Somewhere in all that travel advice, along with taking malarial pills (every single day) and not walking along unlit streets, lurks that bit about avoiding crowded areas. Only thing is, to really get to know a place, it's hard to follow all that advice, all of the time. So, last night after devouring spicy grilled…Read more trace afrobeats show
keke
The streets of Abuja teem with these green and yellow three-wheeled Keke taxis. Away from the centre of the city, away from the Federal government buildings, and near the various markets that surround the city, swarms of Kekes hurtle along the streets, often crammed with people, paying little regard to the rules of the road.…Read more keke
painting by the numbers
If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced ― Vincent Van Gogh These people may or may not have been following Van Gogh's advice with any deliberate purpose, but they surely make his point with eloquence. It's always the little things…Read more painting by the numbers
a road less travelled
Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back - Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken A series of shots taken through the window of a car. A series of shots taken through a veil of reality. A series of shots taken through a journey to another place.…Read more a road less travelled
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