An Afternoon Game Drive
As we finished lunch we could see a massive hazy cloud approaching. It didn’t look very dark or dense, but a gust of wind…
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A Family Safari
In December we went on a short family safari in the Serengeti. So many things happened, but these images stand out most in my…
Dave features in the Wall Street Journal
Congratulations Dave! The Wall Street Journal have just published an excellent article about Dave’s guiding skills and the amazing safari experience possible in Zimbabwe….
Smugglers, bandits and refugees
The GR 10 Trans Pyrenean Way trail involved interminable steep descents and climbs through dense chestnut and holm oak forests. We had seen nobody…
Leaving the shores of the Mediterranean Sea
Living in the midst of a mountain range, there is a magnetism that draws you towards the mountains and the outdoors. The most famous…
To Santiago and beyond
This is an update on my previous post, the Way. The day after my son Laurence and I had biked to the French border,…
The Way
My son Laurence, his cousin Christopher, and I are about to embark on a journey. Traveling for several days from one point to another,…
Daring, outlandish reds, whites and some gold?
Most of the land is so dry that it is only fit for hardy cereals or livestock, but the first part is bordered by the Ebro river …
Who will be President?
We disembark onto the beach and are welcomed to one of the most remote camps in Africa. The waves lapping gently onto the sandy shore are rhythmical and peaceful, but the atmosphere in camp is electric. Talk is centred on who will be the next President. Of course, this camp is not on the arid shores of the Libyan desert, and the executed President was not Muammar Gaddafi.
Market Day
The trails provided ample shade as they crept through dense beech forests, and then all of a sudden would lead us onto exposed high mountain pastures.
An afternoon with lions
While driving along the edge of the Ruaha River during a mid-morning game drive we came across a pride of lions fast asleep in the shade of an acacia, and decided to wait in the hope that a suitable animal would come down to drink.
The gnu
The Serengeti is a vast ecosystem involving a myriad of players. However the star of the show must go to one of the most eccentric of all the protagonists ….