Travel.

[rhythmaning]

My brother works in aid. In the last twenty years, he has worked in various parts of Sudan (including Darfur, before it became the disaster story we read about now), Somaliland (that's the part of Somalia that doesn't have a government), Kenya, and various other places one might prefer not to visit. For the last few years he has been working for Help the Aged International, spending time in Sri Lanka (during the ongoing civil war) and, post-tsunami, Thailand.

Just now he is in Zimbabwe, fact-finding.

It is a strange world.