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 ...
By Claire Roadley I have stayed in many game reserves, having grown up in South Africa – from staying in caravans and Parks Board style rondavels to the very best in 5 star luxury lodges. I even worked for ...
One of my favourite things to do is walking in the countryside with our Jack Russell, Molly. Not just the daily walks around our village, but those that we do over the weekend, when we go a little further afield ...
An article in the inflight magazine spoke of the decline in the number of lions in Africa, a reduction of over 40% in the last 20 years alone. In the 1940’s lion numbers were estimated at about 450,000 – todays ...
It had been a few years since my last visit to Northern Tanzania, an area on many people’s bucket list, and an area with names that evoke all sorts of emotions. My memories of my first visit to Tanzania, about 20 years ago, are still with me – particularly the cheetah sighting in the tall grass of the Serengeti, when the cubs got told off by their Mum, because she lost the Tommy she had just caught for their dinner, as they were otherwise occupied with some rough and tumble.
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 ...