TALES FROM THE AFTERLIFE

A few months ago, my employer sent me to the northernmost most expansive, county in the Republic of Kenya - Marsabit. I felt like John Snow when he was banished to be with the Night's Watch, solemn, lost and hopeless. Still, I had heard of long tales of a county beyond the North Wall. A tribe of fair beautiful people, some say, with biblical roots traced back to the Jewish King Solomon and the beautiful temptress, Queen of Sheba. Tales have been told of exceedingly amiable lasses (you should try Ethiopian Airlines), the world famous Ethiopian flat bread they call  injera  served with mouth-watering spicy stews (doro wat) and washed down with the hugely affordable range of beer brands. This Jon Snow is planning on going further North than prescribed by the "Black Brothers" and have himself a feast fit for crows. But first the business of the day. Marsabit town is located at the foot of Mt. Marsabit, about 500 km from Nairobi and 250 km from Isiolo, the la...

THE SHANGHAI TOWER   The SHANGHAI TOWER is located in the prestigious  Lujiazui - Pudong Financial District of Shanghai in close proximity to the other greats - The Jin Mao Tower & The Shanghai World Financial Center. The Shanghai Tower is the tallest structure in the city with an observation deck on the 121st floor that gives a 360-degree view of the city. The tower literally touches the sky. On a cloudy day, the tower disappears into the clouds. This aerodynamic twisted iconic structure reminds me so much of "Jack and the Beanstalk" story.  This 127-storey mega-structure is 632-metre (2,073 ft), and is the world's 3rd highest building by height behind the world's tallest - Dubai's Burj Khalifa , (828 m) and the world's 2nd-tallest the Tokyo Skytree (634m). The tower also boasts of the world fastest single-deck elevators travelling at an astonishing 18m/second. The tower has lots of intelligent features e.g. wind turbines that generate...