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 […]
Monday 31 October 2022 Having arrived back from Washington DC in the US yesterday, and with Tuesday being a holiday and Sylvia having today off, we decided to revisit Toulouse. We set off early for the 250km drive to Toulouse following the toll roads for the 3+ hour journey. Stopping at the old town fortress […]
Monday 17 October 2022 There was a clear blue sky as I headed out of Tirana, with the misty haze in the distance. There were some nice buildings along the way, plus what looked like a large gas processing plant up on the hill. Albania has gas and oil reserves in the Caspian Sea. The […]
Monday 10 October 2022 – Vienna Rising early, I headed to the rather basic gym and then a rather good breakfast. I caught the local tram the seven or so kms into town and opted for a coffee while I waited for the Information centre to open. There I was able to purchase a day […]
Saturday 1 October 2022 Two years ago my friend Steve and I were supposed to head to Vienna, then through Slovakia, Ukraine, Moldova and a few other countries in that area, then along came Covid and put paid to that idea. With what’s going on in Ukraine just now, one wonders what will happen over […]