I’ve settled on creating this new blog for writing and occasionally posting a photo or something like that. I wanted to continue and develop my writing, whereas my other blog on thomaselsted.wordpress.com was becoming a confused mix between personal stuff, everyday life, photos and the type of writing I wanted to do about more external issues like social and political perspectives and history. So now that I’ve got two, the other one will be reserved for family stuff, and I’ll most likely post in Danish, whereas on this blog everything will be in English (my earlier writing was confusingly in part Danish, part English, part bilingual). Ironically, my installation here of my blogging tool, WordPress, happened to be in Danish, so that’s the reason for some odd spelling in the menus and stuff.

This blog is not related to the town in northern Mali from which it takes its name, but refers to that distant place far from where I am, which could be anywhere but right in front of my nose (until of course I reach Mali, by which time I guess I’ll have to come up with something new).

I am currently living in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I hope to start posting more soon. Feel free to contact me on anything as long as you’re a real human being.