An unabashed tourist and her family explore the world one holiday at a time.
As South Africans, we can sometimes be excused for thinking we have a monopoly on animals and game watching. After all, the Kruger National Park is world-famous and synonymous with the Big Five. In our preoccupation with lions, rhinos, elephants and other interesting denizens of the bushveld, we tend to forget that the world has so much more to offer....
Milestone birthdays should be special. After all, we’re getting older and, hopefully, wiser and that should be celebrated. For my 30th birthday Gareth and I went to Zanzibar, and I spent the day swimming with dolphins. We visited the Finnish arctic circle for Gareth’s 35th birthday, where we went husky sledding and snowmobiling, amongst other memorable adventures. My dad climbed...
Sunday, 26 January 2014 8:00 Shower curtain woes! 9:00 The queue for breakfast is so long today that it is wrapped around the length of the room and continues outside the breakfast hall. Luckily, there is an empty table right by the door. I sit down to reserve it while Gareth braves the masses. 9:30 Gareth returns with some toast...
Friday, 24 January 2014 4:00 I don’t usually sleep well the night before a trip, but luckily this was not the case last night. I jump out of bed like a springbokkie, refreshed and eager to get going. 4:50 Magda arrives and we try and load the suitcases into my dad’s Merc. They don’t fit! Magda hurriedly repacks everything into...
Although Maputo never featured on our must-see list, we were determined to make the most of the two hours we had when the boat’s bus unceremoniously dumped us in the middle of town. While driving through the derelict streets of the capital of Mozambique, many other passengers decided not to get off the bus, but rather to go straight back...
We had our first professional picture taken before we even set foot on the boat. Banners of palm trees to either side, Gareth and I smiled brightly as a photo of the two of us were taken together, then each separately, while the queue for customs at the dock stretched out before and behind us. As our long weekend progressed,...
Tomorrow is our 10th wedding anniversary! I know, right? How fast the years have flown by. Gareth and I are celebrating it by going on our first ever boat cruise! Along with my mother (who celebrates her birthday the day after) and a friend, we are all driving down to Durban, where we will be boarding a huge cruise liner....
