Monday 28 August 2023 After meeting Sylvia at Auckland International Airport in the early evening, we boarded the 12.5 hour LATAM flight to Chile about 6:30pm. We arrived in Santiago for a short stop over before heading on to Buenos Aires, where we checked into the Sofitel Hotel at about 8pm on the Monday evening. […]
Thursday 17 August 2023 Mid-morning I picked up my good mate Dave from the Queenstown Airport. With Dave was Jim from Ireland. Both ex-military, they had met through work some years ago. Jim was wanting to come to NZ to go thar hunting and here he was absorbed in the great scenery surrounding Queenstown. We […]
Sunday 9 July 2023 At 0400 hrs a taxi picked us up for the normal 90 minute trip to Marseille Airport, which at that time was just on an hour. Marseille is one of the world’s not very good airports: old, dirty, packed with people and with poor facilities such as lounges. However in a […]
Saturday 17 June 2023 Having landed in Paris at around 0500 from Johannesburg, we were lucky as arriving at the Prince de Galles hotel, they had a room ready for us. After a shower and some breakfast we took a stroll along the River Seine, arriving at the Sewer museum a few minutes before its […]
Friday 9 June 2023 – San Camp to Mombo: Roger At 0800 after a leisurely breakfast and bags packed we headed off for our last game drive. All was pretty quiet apart from a few mobs of wildebeest heading back from the nighttime safety of the salt pans to the grasses and water holes. We […]
Thank you for all the comments and feedback on the previous blogs. Glad you are enjoying them. Tuesday 6 June 2023 – Duba Plains to San Camp: Roger The coffee and hot chocolate arrived at 0700 as breakfast was at 0830 prior to our flight south to San camp. During breakfast I had a good […]
Friday 2 June 2023 – Maun to Duba Plains: Roger We all met for Breakfast at 0900 then headed to the terminal just across the road to check in for the flight to Maun in Botswana. Kirstie and Celeste had to go and get their bags, which had come in on a morning flight from […]
Wednesday 31 May 2023: Roger Arriving at Auckland Airport, having received an email from Qantas to be at the airport 4-hours before the flight, I checked in online and arrived at 0350hr to pick up the boarding pass. I went to the business class check in, got my boarding pass, and headed upstairs to go […]
I was in Israel for a business trip and had the opportunity to do a couple of brief guided visits, one in Jaffa, the old port near Tel Aviv, (where I was staying), and one in Jerusalem. Israel is a tiny country, steeped in history. Many of the cities have been built, destroyed and rebuilt […]
We attended the fun bull-fighting at Lunel last weekend, after being given tickets by Hadrien who owns the Le Cartel Restaurant at Vauvert and also runs the bull fighting. We popped along for a rather entertaining couple of hours. At this event no bulls die and the blokes in the ring with the bull are […]