Pole to Pole
Day 71: Khartoum

Talking with him offers a bracing corrective to any dewy-eyed nostalgia for a British Sudan. I ask him what it was like during the Gulf War, when Sudan took Saddam Hussein's side and most European governments advised their nationals to get out.
Professor Woodruff brightens visibly at the memory. 'Well . . . I had the whole place to myself . . . dined in state, on my own!' He says he felt quite safe and secure. The country's myriad political problems and the fact that he is, as he admits, living in a 'war situation' does not seem to worry him half as much as the salad.
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PALIN'S GUIDES
- Series: Pole to Pole
- Day: 71
- Country/sea: Sudan
- Place: Khartoum
- Book page no: 153
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