We are approaching home! We arrived in Niamey (the capital of Niger) last night, and are spending the day dealing with visas (for those flying out of Nigeria later this month) and car papers. If all things go well, we could be heading for Zinder tomorrow. Nothing would make me happier!!!

Greetings from Niamey!

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We are now in Burkina Faso! After two days in Mali, we crossed the border yesterday and are now in Ouagadougou (known as Ouaga), where we have applied for visas. We are about a day’s drive from Niamey, the capital of Niger - where we will need to apply for visas to Nigeria (for those [...]

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One of my favourite visits during our stay in Tunisia was when Moncef took us to the village of Testour, where we stopped after having been to see his farm in the north central countryside.

Moncef introduced Testour as a beautiful village with Andalusian inheritances,

…and I found everything about it charming!

We walked up and down the [...]

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Short travel update: We are in Spain. We took the ferry from Tunisia to Genoa (24h) and then drove all night and all day. Will take the boat to Morocco in a few. Warm greetings to you all!

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Looking back at the past few months of my life, I sometimes stop and wonder - did all that surrealness really happen to us? I look back at the blog and at an immense archive of unsorted pictures from Taiwan and I am reminded that - yes, it did happen. And it was real.

When we [...]

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Last week, we joined my father’s friend Moncef to visit his farm, situated some 70km west of Tunis City.

As you can tell from the picture above, we left very early in the morning (before coffee hour!) in order to avoid getting stuck in the Tunis morning traffic.

Having been in the cities much of the time, [...]

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I can’t believe it’s already been three days since we picked up the new Eden car, packed it over night and started the long journey the following morning! It feels so good to be on the road again, not only because we’re heading HOME, but also because it’s been fourteen years now since our last [...]

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One of my favourite places on earth is the ancient Baobab forest of Mirriah, with its mix of century old baobab, palm and mango trees.

Situated 25 km from our Zinder home, we normally go by car (although horseback riding is an option too during the cooler winter months).

When Staffan & Inger (the chairman of the [...]

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Dear all,
We have been warned. A message arrived this morning, stating that “not everybody who cares for Joy is as kind and compassionate as she”, and that unless we enjoy hanging out with “gangsters”, we will not like to know the people we are messing with, whom according to the message, neither we nor my [...]

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We didn’t meet Joy in Germany as she took her scheduled flight after the Transmediale.10 conference back to Taiwan on Wednesday afternoon. On Friday, my father arrived at the airport of Frankfurt and booked his ticket to Taiwan. We decided to follow him.

The flight was a wonderful opportunity for us all to catch up on [...]

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Last week, I went to Nigeria to drop my sister off at the airport, and to pick up my dear friend Karin who has come to visit for two and a half weeks.

As we did not have any work-related shopping to do in Kano this time, we were able to take our time heading north [...]

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Today is my father’s birthday. Grattis på födelsedagen, pappa!

As I was going through the archives, I stumbled upon the diaries that my brother and sister kept during our 1986 Sahara journey. 1986 was the year that we moved from Tunisia (where we had been staying for two years) to Niger, the least developed country in [...]

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For more fascinating skies around the world, check out Skywatch!

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The first major happening after my arrival in Sweden was the wedding of my cousin Lovisa and her beloved Oscar, that took place on my mother’s home island, Smögen. Although it rained up until noon, the clouds distanced themselves in time for the wedding ceremony and throughout the rest of the day, we had bright [...]

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Dear readers!
It is my honour to present esthergarvi.com’s very first Guest Blogger! Four years my elder and offering a unique perspective on the childhood that we shared, Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome my very own sister Miriam Garvi!
* A LEGACY OF MEANING * by Miriam Garvi
I consider my upbringing to be a most privileged [...]

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