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Start of holiday in Burundi – 7 days of isolation due to covid
The first day was for unpacking and settling in as we slowly got used to the tropical heat. Everything was fine until I received an email with the results of the COVID tests, the third one we made in three days. Jessica had tested positive. What a start to the holiday! In shock, it took me a while to see clearly what the next step was. I had to call my uncle to tell him the news and all the other people we had met the day before. According to the rules in place at the time, we all had to spend a week in isolation. Indeed, Jessica had not…
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Places we visited in Morocco : 3) Ait Mansour
Although we don’t plan step by step what we are going to do day by day during our vacations, we know at least the places we want to visit. The spirit is to relax and enjoy every moment and see what places the road offers to us without having the stress of arriving at a specific place, at a specific time because we have already booked the accommodation! The road to the Gorges of Ait Mansour was splendid with its curves and landscapes. The red rocks as well as the villages with their houses well camouflaged in the desert colors made us feel as if we were in a cinematic…
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Places we visited in Morocco: 2) Tafraoute – The painted rocks
The 3 days in Agadir were enough for a break at the beach! Here we are on the road, ready to enjoy our stay in Morocco to the fullest! The road from Agadir to Tafraoute was not that long. We took our time and stopped as soon as the opportunity arose whether to visit the small tourist sites indicated on the map or for a lunch in a village. Often this is not the best idea, as it can lead to disappointment from time to time. Just because the map shows that there is a tourist spot to visit in the vicinity, does not mean that there actually is one.…
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About how I met Stefan
It was a day like any other in May when I went into town for some shopping. The downtown area was as hectic and vibrant as usual, the bus station was still noisy thanks to those guys called ” convoyeurs ” who were doing their job of announcing by shouting where the buses were going and how many seats were left. As strange as it sounds, I always liked the atmosphere of organized disorder in the big cities. Growing up in Bururi, a small town in the south of the country, Bujumbura was for me a city full of people who came from all over the country, a city that…
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Hiking in my hometown’s natural forest reserve – Bururi
In my home town, just above our neighborhood, there are beautiful hills with abundant forest. Behind these hills are different villages, among them the one called “Ku Mpinga”. The landscape is beautiful, but I went there just once with Stefan when he visited my mom for the first time in 2011. We went by car as he had a 4-wheel drive car, good for field trips. It was a nice ride but somehow something was missing: we did not feel the grandeur of this dense green forest nor did we hear birds singing. Anyway, we enjoyed that trip and were grateful to Stefan who introduced us to something new which…
