Aidan Hartley - The Zanzibar ChestAidan Hartley (named after Aden) is one of those British colonials who never actually returned to Britain, even if they could regard it as "home". But they still mostly stayed where their ancestors had moved. Hartley himself became a war correspondent and wittnessed number of African conflicts, not only the most ( Read more... )

Weather: +0 degrees Celsius, icy ground. It apparently snowed last night

Local BookCrossers gather together every two weeks but the last Tuesday we had some extra visitors; a reporter and a cameraman from the MTV-3 TV and media company. This week's meeting was in the café HerttaUnfortunately, because we knew they were coming, there were only 8 ( Read more... )