Life the way I love it…
aka Ishtar News
Life the way I love it…
A favourite breakfast over at Ishtar’s ark right now is sorghum porridge.
Porridge in itself is a very Swedish thing, but the thing is both my sister and I prefer sorghum porridge to any other porridge we’ve ever had.
That together with a cup of coffee and some vitamin C (whether that be Eden fruits or oranges) […]
I seem to have two cravings in Niger: chocolate and cheese (both pretty hard to come by). The recipe above was inspired by pasta leftovers in combination with a very strong cheese craving. Need I say that the end result, which included garlic-fried basil leaves, fresh tomatoes, Eden nuts and cream sauce (in addition to […]
As you probably all know by now, I love the Zinder bush. I love the contrast between the yellow sand, the red mud, the green trees and the often so blue sky. It’s serene and I can watch it for ages.
There’s something precious about the expanse, the ancient rocks and the handful of villages situated […]
Life on Eden Street (2008)
I love Niger. I can’t always tell you why, but I just do. It’s a strange place. It’s different from most other places on earth. It lacks tempo and several other Western values that we seem to think of as general virtues these days; but it’s genuine and generous and I […]
It’s been dry and hot all day, and then all of sudden - it started to rain!
And as I would never do in Sweden, I went out of the office (had to turn off the computer because of the thunders anyway) and enjoyed the rain!
But after a while, the shower got too intense - although […]
In the Western world, the notion of civilization is mostly focused around technological success, but in the least developed area in the poorest country in the world (that would be Tanout, yes), you will find a world totally different from your own. Here, people have time for each other, the poor laugh and the children […]
My dad is in Niger for the time being, which is allowing us Garvis to catch up on precious family time!
Here is Tabita and her aunt spending half a siesta in her grandfather’s pool. It was soooo nice, and thanks to her grandfather’s efforts (and a pool that is too deep for her to stand […]
I offered you my all
And I think my heart went to live with you
For it now speaks a language only you two understand
It talks of things I do not know by name
And comes to realizations that I cannot explain
It breaks into a song to which I know no tunes
But which I wish so desperately I […]
Two weeks ago, just after my return to Niger, Anette and I took our two mares Arwen and Sahara to see the third member of their flock: Sahara’s younger sister Maya who now stays with another expat family only a block away.
Maya was happy to see us again and made sure as usual to plant […]
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