Category: Travels

The path of celestial visions

Association of Former WMO Staff, Buletin 3, November 2005. The path of celestial visions By Naginder Sehmi The steep rocky promontory on the left where the Rhone River makes an elbow bend has impressed whoever has entered Valais from Lake Leman side. It marks the entrance to central Valais. It is also the site of…

By Naginder Sehmi 27 January 2015 Off

LONDON REVISITED- 1999

LONDON REVISITED – 1999 By Naginder Sehmi It is nearly 30 years since I have been living in Geneva. Uprooted from a well-established small town of Eldoret in the “White” highlands of Kenya, social roots cannot grow easily in Geneva. In Eldoret every one knew every one. Many Kenya Asians flocked to Britain where they…

By Naginder Sehmi 26 January 2015 Off

Kilimanjaro: One Rover’s Impression -1956

“BATIAN” – Scouting Magazine (Kenya), page 15, February, 1957 KILIMANJARO: One Rover’s Impression -1956 By Naginder S. Sehmi THE Wood Badge Course at Rowallan Camp, as strenuous as any course well could be in a Scout’s normal career, concluded on August 25th, 1956. Only two days later, in a well-washed uniform and laden with a…

By Naginder Sehmi 26 January 2015 Off