Togo-or not to go
Lome, Togo · The Trials
Togo or Not Togo
Where there’s a Will, there’s a play. A port call missed, a show delivered, and Shakespeare standing in for shore leave.
Where there’s a Will, there’s a play.
Like Dubai or not Dubai, Togo or not Togo, I read Shakespeare instead of visiting this port of call.
Actually, I had to work on a show.
If work is prayer, then I am going to heaven.
“The port was outside. The play was the journey.”
Operational lesson: sometimes the foreign land is not the city beyond the gangway. It is the role waiting under the stage lights.
Read the Wider Route
Companion Stories
Back in Time
A return through memory, movement and the long wake of earlier voyages.
Alive on Arrival
Arrival as proof of life rather than merely a line on the itinerary.
The Art of Racing in the Rain
A southern African field note about movement, weather and memory.
Cape Town Welcomes QM2
A maritime arrival shaped by ceremony, scale and the city beneath Table Mountain.
Achieving Grapeness
Wine country, wordplay and the cultivated rewards of taking the slower road.
Net Worth
A different accounting of place, family and what a life is actually worth.
Livingstone, I Presume
Beauty, discovery and the impossible scale of a place that resists easy description.
The Elixir
Sometimes you travel by going ashore. Sometimes you travel by becoming the person the work requires.Togo remained beyond the gangway, but the day still became part of the voyage. The show was the trial. The finished performance was the passport stamp.