Mediterranean coast of Europe

Gimme some advice!

Do you know of any people / places / hotels / restaurants / bars / guides / resources in this country that you think would be unmissable?

I desperately need your advice, tips and recommendations. What's more, I have a memory like sliced slurry, and whatever you tell me in a drunken fug by the Thames is already gone: I need it written down.

Stick your advice in the comments - pleasepleaseplease, and I'll add it onto this main post as soon as I hit a country with a proper broadband connection...

Cheers, me dears...

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I'll be getting to Spain in April 2008, with some luck, and want to go to Andalucia, San Sebastian and Barcelona. Then on to Marseille, Cannes in France; Rome in Italy,; Zagreb in Croatia, and down the coast of Albania to Greece, where I want to visit Iraklia, and then the first place I ever travelled to, Cret.
I want this leg of this journey to be very very rapid - I'm not living in these places, more doing a matter of days there throughout late spring 2008:

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East Africa

Gimme some advice!

Do you know of any people / places / hotels / restaurants / bars / guides / resources in this country that you think would be unmissable?

I desperately need your advice, tips and recommendations. What's more, I have a memory like sliced slurry, and whatever you tell me in a drunken fug by the Thames is already gone: I need it written down.

Stick your advice in the comments - pleasepleaseplease, and I'll add it onto this main post as soon as I hit a country with a proper broadband connection...

Cheers, me dears...

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I'll be starting off in Chad in February 2008, then travelling overland around the east coast and the interior. I'm aiming to go to Cameroon, Nigeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, and up to Tombouctou in Mali. From there, I want to fly to Morocco, and travel up through Agadir and Marrakesh to cross over into Spain by mid srping 2008:

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West Africa

Gimme some advice!

Do you know of any people / places / hotels / restaurants / bars / guides / resources in this country that you think would be unmissable?

I desperately need your advice, tips and recommendations. What's more, I have a memory like sliced slurry, and whatever you tell me in a drunken fug by the Thames is already gone: I need it written down.

Stick your advice in the comments - pleasepleaseplease, and I'll add it onto this main post as soon as I hit a country with a proper broadband connection...

Cheers, me dears...

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This is the classic Cairo to Cape Town overland route, but in reverse, and cutting out Cairo and Sudan (been there! too many times), and adding in much more time in Kenya, plus visiting Madagascar.

I'll be in Cape Town, in South Africa in autumn 2007, then travel north through Lesotho, Durban, Madagascar, Lake Tanganyika, on to Lamu in Kenya, LAke Victoria, KAmpala, and ending up in Nairobi around January or February 2008:

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