Travel with Kat » Senegal http://travelwithkat.com Discovering new countries, cultures and cuisines Thu, 23 May 2013 16:43:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Photo Essay from West Africa: ‘Home’ http://travelwithkat.com/2013/03/07/home-frifotos/ http://travelwithkat.com/2013/03/07/home-frifotos/#comments Thu, 07 Mar 2013 18:52:56 +0000 Kathryn Burrington http://travelwithkat.com/?p=5844 This week’s #FriFotos theme on Twitter is ‘Home’. Tomorrow people, all around the world, will be tweeting images reflecting this theme throughout the day. Search for the #FriFotos hashtag and you’ll see them. It’s certainly got me thinking of the great variety of homes I have visited over the years from the Palace of Thanjavur [...]

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]]> http://travelwithkat.com/2013/03/07/home-frifotos/feed/ 12 Memories of Gorée Island, Senegal http://travelwithkat.com/2013/01/07/goree-island-senegal/ http://travelwithkat.com/2013/01/07/goree-island-senegal/#comments Mon, 07 Jan 2013 08:26:29 +0000 Kathryn Burrington http://travelwithkat.com/?p=5135 The boat leaves Dakar and not before long Gorée Island comes into view. Pastel coloured, European-style buildings, palm trees, blue skies and blue seas. The scene is like no other I have seen in West Africa.   The tiny island of Gorée, a UNESCO World Heritage Site,  lies 3km off the coast of Dakar, the [...]

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]]> http://travelwithkat.com/2013/01/07/goree-island-senegal/feed/ 13 Seven Super Shots http://travelwithkat.com/2012/02/19/seven-super-shots/ http://travelwithkat.com/2012/02/19/seven-super-shots/#comments Sun, 19 Feb 2012 10:44:15 +0000 Kathryn Burrington http://travelwithkat.com/?p=2081 There’s a great photography post doing the rounds at the moment called ’7 Super Shots’. HostelBookers.com put out the call to select 7 of your favourite photographs, one for each of the following categories, then tag 5 bloggers that you would like to take part. I was really pleased when Anja nominated me. So here [...]

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]]> http://travelwithkat.com/2012/02/19/seven-super-shots/feed/ 54 The bright colours and delightful patterns of Senegalese textiles http://travelwithkat.com/2012/01/27/kats-travel-snap-of-the-week-senegalese-textiles/ http://travelwithkat.com/2012/01/27/kats-travel-snap-of-the-week-senegalese-textiles/#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:29:02 +0000 Kathryn Burrington http://travelwithkat.com/?p=1923 A while ago now I spent a very wonderful and very hectic three days rushing around Senegal on a photography trip for The Senegal Experience. Here’s another photograph from that trip of some traditional textiles in a market in Saly. I love all the colours, patterns and pictures used in these textiles and I think it [...]

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]]> http://travelwithkat.com/2012/01/27/kats-travel-snap-of-the-week-senegalese-textiles/feed/ 5 Pounding grain in Senegal http://travelwithkat.com/2011/12/29/kats-travel-snap-of-the-week-pounding-grain-in-senegal/ http://travelwithkat.com/2011/12/29/kats-travel-snap-of-the-week-pounding-grain-in-senegal/#comments Thu, 29 Dec 2011 14:02:22 +0000 Kathryn Burrington http://travelwithkat.com/?p=1572 This week’s picture comes from Senegal. I spotted these three ladies pounding grain while driving around the Sine Saloum Delta region. Millet is the most common grain eaten amongst the poorer community (where as rice is more popular with the more affluent and doesn’t need to be pounded). Millet, sorghum and corn are all pounded like [...]

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]]> http://travelwithkat.com/2011/12/29/kats-travel-snap-of-the-week-pounding-grain-in-senegal/feed/ 4 A slice of lemon with your barnacles madame? http://travelwithkat.com/2011/10/21/a-slice-of-lemon-with-your-barnacles-madame/ http://travelwithkat.com/2011/10/21/a-slice-of-lemon-with-your-barnacles-madame/#comments Fri, 21 Oct 2011 12:56:52 +0000 Kathryn Burrington http://travelwithkat.com/?p=841 If I spot something unusual on the menu chances are I’ll opt for that. I’ve crunched my way through scorpions, nibbled locusts and enjoyed ostrich steak. While on a photographic assignment for The Cape Verde Experience  I came across two local delicacies new to me: perceves (sea fingers) – they look a bit like purple [...]

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]]> http://travelwithkat.com/2011/10/21/a-slice-of-lemon-with-your-barnacles-madame/feed/ 13 A close encounter… of the wild kind http://travelwithkat.com/2009/08/28/a-close-encounter-of-the-wild-kind/ http://travelwithkat.com/2009/08/28/a-close-encounter-of-the-wild-kind/#comments Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:11:25 +0000 Kathryn Burrington http://travelwithkat.com/?p=265 For as long as I can remember I have had a keen interest in animals, both wild and domestic, in fact, although I now work as a graphic designer and photographer my main subject at University in Bristol was Zoology and one of the first jobs I ever had was in a zoo. You can [...]

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