Nairobi, Kenya – Photo CC by Nina R Kenya is a land of extremes: of safari and sea, the second-highest mountain in Africa and the longest rift on earth, of snowy peaks and tropical equatorial rainforests. Much like its geography, life in Kenya is equally...
Table Mountain in Cape Town – Photo (CC) by Erin Johnson When I got the opportunity, back in 2003, to come and spend five months working in South Africa, I didn’t give the cost of living in Cape Town a second thought. In the Netherlands, I had just lost my...
Canary Island Beaches The Islands The Canary Islands are a group of seven islands, just off the Saharan coast of Africa, which belong to Spain. Nominally part of Europe, they are well over 1,000 miles from the southernmost part of that continent, and they enjoy a...
