by Carlo | Aug 27, 2012 | Uncategorized
This is one of my personal favourite photos from my three month volunteer trip to East Africa back in 2009. It was taken during our first day after we landed in Nairobi, Kenya. We had a couchsurf organised for a couple of nights there with a local lady, who lived...
by Carlo | Dec 7, 2011 | Blog, Uncategorized
I realise that I left the blog in a bit of a loop since I last posted an entry on Sept 10th. This was deliberate on my behalf as I hated coming back to it since we had to cut our trip short by three months. As most of ye know, I hurt my back while at the end of our...Tags: backpacking, injury
by Carlo | Feb 8, 2010 | Blog, Uncategorized
I was absolutely chuffed to bits to find out that I got voted as Boyle Person of the year 2009! It’s a great honour to have won this local award which has been in existence for the past seventeen years. Unfortunately, I was unable to attend the ceremony, which...Tags: award, volunteer
by Carlo | Apr 18, 2009 | Blog, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Uncategorized, Volunteer Work
Well its been a rollercoaster of a three months and we got back home yesterday, much to the surprise of our family and friends. We had told them all along that we would be home on the 23rd April, so you can imagine their surprise when we showed up out of the blue. We...Tags: africa, travel, volunteer
by Carlo | Dec 17, 2008 | Blog, Uncategorized
Got our second lot of vaccinations yesterday in the TMB down in Sligo. Only one more sessions of needles and we’re good to go :)! For this trip we were advised to get the following vaccines: Yellow fever(which is compulsory with travel to most tropical...Tags: africa, vaccinations, volunteer
