It isn’t the heat or the cold at night. It isn’t the incessant fleas biting you as you try to sleep in a compound. It isn’t the pumping adrenaline and fear when the round from insurgents come cracking in. What really strikes you is something altogether larger – the sheer, astonishing ambition of...
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Astonishing ambition of Nato hopes for the Afghan army
Animal magic in Tanzania
Waterside retreats with game on tap SELOUS SAFARI CAMP, SELOUS NATIONAL PARK Perched on the banks of Lake Nzerakera, in Africa's largest game reserve (55,000 sq km, or twice the size of Belgium), this ultra-luxurious camp ( selous.com ) is divided into two sectors, each with its own swimming pool, bar and alfresco...
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Moving house? No, we’re just off to Italy to visit the folks
A motor home is a great way to see Europe from the slow lane Last spring, a cheerful ex-paratrooper named Bernie spent half a day showing me how to tow a small caravan around a field, as preparation for a weekend spent towing an absolutely enormous one around the Midlands. A few months...
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Shaken but not stirred – confessions of a Haiti reporter
I’ve been back from Haiti for over a week now, and I am still troubled by the experience. I have not been visited by nightmares, and I have not been sucked into an emotional maelstrom because of what I have witnessed. In fact, precisely the opposite. I am troubled because I feel a...
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Haiti: searching for faith in difficult times
We moved house again last night. I think it’s the seventh place I’ve slept in as many days, but I’m beginning to lose count. We were invited to set up camp with the UK search and rescue team, the men and women who have been digging out survivors and, unfortunately, pulling corpses out...
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