Category Archives: Travel

First Knock Door

When Victor found I had an Ewondo girlfriend from the Centre Province, he asked me if I was a serious man.

“If you are a serious man, you need to know how to dote your love,” he said. “I will tell you how to go see her father.”

The Ewondo live in the French speaking Centre province, so I asked, “How do you know about the Ewondo?”

“I had a love from there,” he told me. “You must be ready for what will happen. It is called the First Knock Door. When you go to see the father to ask for his daughter, you will say to the father, ‘You have a nice flower in the family that I love’.”

A short walk in the Cameroon rainforest

(Summer 2014) Simon Waters; 15 minutes As we left Assok, morning light streamed down through the rainforest tree tops. Soon the trail crossed a wide mud-brown river on a fallen tree trunk and Etienne strolled unconcernedly across. Although my pack was lighter than Etienne’s, I needed to protect my iPhone, and digital camera, so IContinue reading “A short walk in the Cameroon rainforest”

A Princess or an ice-axe?

The Himalayan Institute of Mountaineering, Manali Part 1 Simon Waters I was sitting looking into the beautiful brown eyes of a stunning, sari-clad princess, at a party in Dehli, when my father came up. “There is someone over here I think you ought to meet”. “I’ll just be a few minutes Jake”, I replied, andContinue reading “A Princess or an ice-axe?”