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A long visit to Limboland
Limboland. It’s not a place I have spent much time in before. Who would have thought, that whilst on a 4 week holiday in my country of birth, New Zealand, visiting friends and family, that I would have gotten stranded here in Limboland, with my life as I knew it turned upside down? Mid March […]

Bedouin women making history
April 11, 2019 · by Julie Paterson · in Adventures, Bedouin life, Giving back, Life stories, Muslim life, Travel in the Middle East, Travelling with nomads, Uncategorized, Women-only travel · 2 Comments
Um Yasser, a middle-aged Bedouin woman of the Hamada tribe in South Sinai, was born in a rock house, but spent much of her childhood living in a cave dwelling in the desert, where she and her mother tended their herd of goats. The Bedouins are an old, conservative ethnic group, with laws that govern […]