The truly lovely thing about Serena Beach is the layout. You are taken back in time to a Swahili Village as this is what the hotel is modelled on, the town of Lamu. Winding pathways through lush gardens connect the ...
Our great Kenyan adventure started with a rather uneventful flight from Heathrow to Nairobi. To be honest, this is exactly the start parents want with 2 children in tow. Meals that they enjoyed, movies on tap and the opportunity for ...
I’m off on a first for me – my first trip to Botswana and Zimbabwe. Now I am travelling with Alison who as you all know has vast amounts of knowledge on all things African. As such I am in ...
With the temperatures rising we started to head across the province and closer to the East coast. We were going to be basing ourselves for a few days at Ghost Mountain Inn to enable us to enjoy both the hotel ...
For those of you who are keeping up with our in-depth family holiday around KZN in South Africa, then welcome to the next instalment! The next stage of our itinerary was, in my mind, the one that I was a ...
From The Midlands you can view the Drakensburg Mountains in the distance. They were snow-capped this time of year (August), but we were reliably informed that actually the weather should be warmer in the mountains than down in the farming ...
Now what can be more off putting than getting off of a longhaul flight and then telling two tired, but excited children that they now have a 4 – 5 hour car journey ahead! Don’t do it, come up with ...
Booking a family holiday is always fraught with challenges. We want to create great memories and have some amazing experiences but equally some chill out time. We want good weather, but for it not to be so hot that the ...
Maputo is an African city largely overlooked in more recent years by the British leisure traveller. A former playground for the rich and famous, the civil war took its toll and it fell out of fashion. That attitude however should, ...
Feeling rested and ready for a bit of activity, we met for breakfast before being shown around the rest of Machangulo Beach Lodge by Christiaan, our incredibly passionate and enthusiastic host. This show round enabled us to fully appreciate and ...