Category Archives: Islands

Malagasy mega-slideshow, Madagascar part 1

Posted on 22 Oct 2014 by lornaofarabia

I am trying to see as much of sub-Saharan Africa as I can during my last year in Ethiopia, so with that in mind I decided a couple of months ago to spend the week-long October break in Madagascar. Andreas’s … Continue reading →

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Penguins?

Posted on 13 Oct 2014 by lornaofarabia

I didn’t know much about what there was to see in Africa before moving here. In fact I didn’t know much about Africa at all (if that sounds like you, too, take a look at this video. You might be … Continue reading →

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Ometepe

Posted on 24 Jul 2014 by lornaofarabia

Tonight is our fifth and last night on Ometepe, a volcanic island in Lake Nicaragua. The name comes from the Nahuatl words ome (two) and tepetl (mountain). The island consists of two volcanoes, Concepción and Maderas, joined by an isthmus … Continue reading →

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So this is the tale of our castaways

Posted on 12 Jul 2014 by lornaofarabia

The next morning we were in luck. Our taxi driver from the day before came to pick us up at the Big Fish. He informed us that the water was rough, but the panga was running. Hurray! We arrived in … Continue reading →

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Big Corn

Posted on 8 Jul 2014 by lornaofarabia

At the airport in Managua we boarded a small plane bound for the tiny Corn Islands, 45 miles off the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua. There are two islands here: Big Corn Island and (predictably) Little Corn Island. Those are their … Continue reading →

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Staffa and Treshnish

Posted on 30 Jul 2013 by lornaofarabia

Wow. We’ve seen some great stuff on this trip, but this really puts a bow on it. We booked a daytrip to Staffa and Treshnish through Turus Mara. A little bus picked us up at Salen’s village center and delivered … Continue reading →

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Iona

Posted on 29 Jul 2013 by lornaofarabia

Today we took a boat from Mull to the even smaller island of Iona. Iona was a hopping center of Celtic Christianity back in the day. St. Columba arrived there with twelve of his Irish buddies in the year 503. … Continue reading →

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Mulling it over

Posted on 28 Jul 2013 by lornaofarabia

Sorry. I know my titles get pretty cheesy sometimes. We spent last night in Oban, then this morning made the short crossing by ferry to the Isle of Mull. We dropped our bags off at a B&B in Salen, and … Continue reading →

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Mucking about

Posted on 27 Jul 2013 by lornaofarabia

Today we took the long way back from Rum. Most days of the week there is a ferry that goes from one small isle to another, but on summer Saturdays there is a ferry that starts on the mainland and … Continue reading →

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Midges and magnates

Posted on 26 Jul 2013 by lornaofarabia

This morning we took the the ferry from Ardvasar to Mallaig, on the mainland. There we boarded another ferry that took us to Rum, the largest in a group of four islands called “the small isles.” Rum has plenty of … Continue reading →

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