A trip to Hong Kong
In September 1993, while I was working as a UN soldier in Somalia, I travelled to Hong Kong, Macao and China. Hong Kong Most of the time we spent in Hong Kong, which was a British colony until 1997. Macao…
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A taste of India
In 1993 I travelled to India with a fellow soldier who also wanted to get away from Somalia for a while. We stayed in Bombay (later renamed Mumbai) and then went on to the former hippie paradise of Goa, now…
Army leave in Kenya
While working as a UN soldier in Somalia, I went on many shorter trips to neighbouring Kenya. Masai Mara In May 1993, I went on a safari to Masai Mara, a national park in Kenya. Mombasa
UN service in Somalia
From December 1992 until March 1994 I was working as a UN soldier in Mogadishu, Somalia. The United Nations Operation in Somalia (UNOSOM) was established to end war and starvation, and counted about 30,000 soldiers from all over the world.