TRAVELOGUE: A PASSAGE TO GENEVA by Wale Okediran
It’s sunset in Switzerland and I am on a boat on the enchanting Lake Geneva. All around me were other boats filled with tourists who were taking advantage of the nice weather to enjoy a ride on the famous lake. A few meters away spurting into the twilight was a vertical jet of water known […]
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TRAVELOGUE: THE TRAIN TO PADDINGTON by Wale Okediran
Breakfast at the Hall of Wadham College, Oxford University, UK was a routine meeting place for many of the delegates to the maiden edition of the James Currey Literary Festival. Organized by the young and energetic Nigerian Writer and Academic, Onyeka Nwelue, the festival was to honor the contributions of Prof James Currey, co-founder of […]
Family road trip in South Africa
By Abigail George, Johannesburg “As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.” – Virginia Woolf When I was a teenager my dream holidays were always spent in Johannesburg. My Swaziland-cousins would come and visit. My mother’s brother and wife had three sons, a swimming pool (we swum […]
TRAVELOGUE; A WEEKEND IN TOGO
By Wale Okediran We entered Lome to a stunning postcard scenery of a coconut tree lined pristine ocean coastline to our right with a rush hour vehicular traffic that choked the highway to our left. While the blue translucent Atlantic- ocean cast its spell along the long shore line, I was equally fascinated watching the […]
Flashback: A Passage to Russia By Wale Okediran
It’s almost midnight in Saint Petersburg and the sun is yet to set. From my vantage point at the window of the bedroom of my rented apartment on Muchnoy Pereulok 1, Tsentralny district, the city appeared angelic and very beautiful in Thanks 55brilliant late night sunshine. Outside on the streets, lively, friendly, romantic and bustling […]
A Response to One Week in Kinshasa
Dear Wale, Dear Brother, thank you for sharing. This is your second Travelogue, I have been reading following the Egyptian experience. Thank you. This one resonates on a special way to me since i lived 5 years in Kinshasa. Bravo to the Writer Traveler! You manage to carry us in Central Africa, on the banks […]
Travelogue: One Week in Kinshasa
By Wale Okediran, My first glimpse of Kinshasa was the River Congo. As the African World Airline AWA Flight 342 from Accra, Ghana continued to circle in the air while awaiting permission to land, the sight of the gloriously serpentine river was a temporary relief to the anxiety of waiting. Moments later, when the airport […]
My Travel Writing Tips by Wale Okediran
I normally carry out some research about my destination before commencing my trip. Once in my destination, all my senses of Sight, Smell, Hearing, Touch and Taste are put into use. I usually go with a Notebook, a good Camera and Recorder ( when it’s difficult to write). My Infinity App for Language translation is […]
