Niamey's main roads bustle with trucks and cars, many delivering goods. But supplies need to filter into neighbourhoods along sandy...

Pants, painting, tomatageddon and a near coup. That's quite a lot for one week. The pants were the easy bit. Superman has been rolling...

Niamey got with the times, yesterday, and had some fake news. It was widely reported that the outcome of the final review of the...

We've been across the river. And found a whole scene with pumpkins coming in on Piroques - long boats with beautiful decorations. The...

It's almost 50 years since I became vegetarian, but I do sometimes serve meat to others. Last Saturday we celebrated Superman's birthday...

Our household has expanded. We're now 5 people regularly, with some additional occasional participants and a small, yellow, part-time...

Having had a post-arrival blood test, showing I'm still negative for Covid, I've been outside the hotel to see some life in Niamey. And...

From snowmen to sand-drifts. Amsterdam to Niamey. It's just a five hour flight from Paris, but the differences are far more than just...