‘Tis the season to be jolly, for some at least. Elsewhere, ‘tis the season to rampage through the streets, rubbing out your adversaries and making life a misery for anyone that contests your anti-social behaviour.
Lessons from the French school.
Back in the day there was a guy called Chad, and also a country, somewhere down there in the dirty sands of Africa, where a bunch of those little kiddies ran around playing and screaming and falling over stuff and sometimes even picking up guns to kill each other -
It is a war for those of us who happen to spend time traveling or living in parts of the world where malaria is an issue to be not only aware of, but one to also consider when it’s implications can affect our health and welfare. Modern medicine is on our side, and is also […]
2006 has kept the news headlines coming thick and fast - from 13 car bombs in Iraq on the 1st Jan; through food shortages in Central Africa, to a summer of destruction in Southern Lebanon.
Throughout history, military forces have depended on civilian contractors of one sort or another to give their military personnel flexibility, or to fulfill logistical and support functions that soldiers do not need to do.
Malaria is one of the scourges of third world travelers, not to mention the people that live in areas prone to the disease.
A summary of the world’s worst travel dstinations of 2005, as chosen by Polo’s Bastards.
