An unabashed tourist and her family explore the world one holiday at a time.
“Elephants in the distance,” I say from the back of the game truck, but either the ranger doesn’t hear me or he chooses to ignore the first animals we’ve come across in the grey morning light just before dawn. A few minutes earlier his walkie-talkie had crackled and hissed in broken Tswana, a message he had translated as leopard spotted...
Now that the excitement of Christmas has passed, it’s time to reflect on the year gone by and make resolutions for the year lying ahead. Let’s have a look at last year’s travel resolutions: Have more local holidays. This resolution started off well, but then sort of fell by the wayside as the year progressed. We had a… memorable… experience...
“Come look quickly!” Gareth called quietly, but urgently, from our porch at the Chobe Safari Lodge where I was taking a respite from the heat by reading my Kindle inside our air-conditioned room. I put my book down and went outside to be met by this: A troop of mongooses were cavorting on the lawn, joined shortly thereafter by a...
Gareth and I spent the first three days of our African Adventure 2011 holiday at the lovely Chobe Safari Lodge situated on the banks of the Chobe river in Botswana. We had a River Room at ground level and could watch small animals play on the grass outside while lying in bed, the blue waters of the river sparkling in...
It’s been almost a week since my return from my first business trip. You might remember that I had set myself a clear mission for those three weeks in Tanzania – to find some free time to explore. Well, that proved to be more difficult than expected. In fact, I ended up working 5 days worth of overtime – 6...
When I booked our African Adventure 2011 holiday, I left all the little nitty-gritty details to the travel agent to arrange. So apart from the fact that we were going to Zimbabwe and Botswana, and a knowledge of the pre-booked activities we had chosen to do, we had no idea of the what, when and where’s of this holiday. I...
The flight that would take Gareth and me to Zambia for our African Adventure holiday was scheduled to fly out late on a Monday morning, which made dropping us off at the airport a little inconvenient. So we decided to take the Gautrain instead. We had originally considered taking one of the shiny golden busses to the station, but my...
After many months of envying colleagues sent to Australia, Dubai or the UK for work, I finally found out two weeks ago that I will be going on my first ever business trip this year. And as it turns out, it’s an international trip. I will be gone for most of November, almost three weeks, and will be working onsite...
My 1TB hard drive joined the choir invisibile over the weekend. It contained all my music, games, videos and, most importantly, photos taken over the last five years. While everything on the drive is replaceable, the photos is what had me freaked out. I’ve been in the process of trying to find an online site to which I can backup...
And so the Spain 2010 trip finally comes to and end, which means it’s time to reflect on what we did right, where we went wrong and what we should never mention again! Although Gareth’s parents joined us for most of the trip, the exercise is really to determine what the two of us thought of the holiday, so without...