The Trivet Maker  It amazes me each day how many professions one can find in Madagascar. Many of them no longer exist in our society (...

Today was a special day for me and for the center for steetchildren I volunteer at. We were invited to participate at la Fete du Pain , a b...

C-c-c-cold I am sure I already told you that it can get fricking cold here in Tana. Don't ask me why but this week King Winter decided ...

I have started a consultancy assignment for  UNICEF. A very interesting job, to conduct an assessment of UNICEF's partners' capaciti...

So we've landed back in Tana. Usually I feel a little rocky when traveling between the first and third world, if I may use this old-fash...

To get a visa for Antoine, my stepson who will come live with us in Mada for two years, we went to the Madagascar Embassy in Brussels yester...

Not many Romans at the Colosseum, lots of Bangladeshi! When in Rome do as the Romans do....I could not help thinking about this prov...

I will share a little secret with you. My daugher is almost seven years old now (six and three quarters as she likes to say) and she can not...

Look at these pictures! Madagascar really deserves this award...which has been invented by me :-) Pictures shot by our Belgian friend Mich...