Archive for the 'Travel account' Category
Gharib Ajib
Wednesday, July 18th, 2007Yemen is a wonderfully crazy country. Yesterday, while Kåre, my Norwegian friend, and I were standing by the street outside waiting for a bus, a car stopps and the guy on the passanger side leans out and gives us each a piece of fried fish. Initial attempts at saying no thanks is met with a […]
Video: The flooding of Sana’a
Tuesday, July 10th, 2007Yesterday, torrential rains hit Sana’a creating flooding all over the city. My house and my room faces the Sailah, a ‘river’ that is used as a road all year long as it only rains during the summer months, and then usually not enough to create problems for traffic.
Yet, once in a while it floods […]
The Officer’s Club
Sunday, July 8th, 2007The title of this post gives a feel of times long gone when a colonial administrator could lounge under a parasol, a gin tonic in his hand, and know that the Empire was safe and sound, as the sun would never set. Nothing could be further from the truth at Sana’a’s Officers’ Club.
The Club is […]
The politics of foreigners in Yemen
Wednesday, July 4th, 2007For the first time since 1998 foreigners have been killed on purpose in Yemen. Whereas kidnapping of foreigners was everyday business throughout most of the 1990s when more than 100 were kidnapped, this was mostly in order to pressure the government to free jailed tribesmen or implement social projects in peripheral areas. This meant that […]
Patience, patience
Saturday, June 30th, 2007It’s funny being back in Yemen. Nothing much seems to have changed other than the number of foreigners. They’re everywhere these days, especially at the language institutes. It’s quite a change from my first time here in 2002 when we were about six students at CALES – my school. Even though most of the passenger […]
Konspirasjoner og politikk -kun seriost for en gangs skyld
Saturday, December 10th, 2005Heisann
Siste livstegn fra meg for jeg begynner aa ringe og mase om fyll om en uke. Her har klimaforandringene slaatt til og manglende golfstrom er ikke et problem. Paa denne tiden av aaret skal det regne og vaere kaldt (les 10-15 grader), men i stedet har det naa i ukesvis vaert sol og 20 grader […]