Apologies for the light posting, but we've just gotten back from Africa, and have been slow in getting our appetite for work back. Not that we are sick from anything we ate; like most of the participants in the 2007 Budapest-Bamako rally, we didn't eat enough exotic (i.e. dangerous) local food to run that risk. In fact, if you want to know how safe most of Hungarian daredevils on the rally played it food-wise, just get a load of the above picture, snapped on a pristine stretch of Mauritanian beach last week. On one side of the grill is a beautiful, just-plucked-from-the-ocean fish being grilled up for one daring member of the squad, and on the other, a can of Hungarian pacalpörkölt (tripe stew). It would almost be pathetic, if pacalpörkölt wasn't scarier than most of the traditional African food we didn't have the time to eat.