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Forest fruit from Barro Colorado Island, Panama. Photo by Christian Ziegler. “The water we drink falls as rain, usually on higher ground, often designated as a catchment area. The terrain would ideally be covered in vegetation, because otherwise the runoff would be muddy, the reservoirs would silt up and the valleys would flood. But plants […]

We were already big fans of Ethiopian cuisine a long time before we ever set foot there, and, as excited as we were about the whole trip, there was one thing that slightly bugged us food-wise: if we ate injera every day for a week (or more) how long would it be before we hit […]

Good advice from Anne Edmond

Due to the ‘superficial’ nature of this post, we wish to let readers know that this report was written prior to the current turmoil that has besieged the Egyptian capital… our foreign correspondent was in fact 2 days shy of witnessing the first protest! Which is why this post’s focus – as with the other […]