Welcome to Tasmania, where you end up doing double takes down the street and you’re not quite sure if you saw the same person twice!! I landed in Tasmania and it was like landing back in the UK only in the nicer countryside parts, like the Lake District or the West Country. Definitely not London.…
Tag: Landscape
The Wild and Wondrous Plains of Africa…
On a cold November morning I departed London Heathrow and just over 8 Hours later, following a turbulent flight, I touched down in Nairobi, Kenya, late in the evening. My African Adventure was about to begin! It was incredibly humid passing through Nairobi airport and as with any foreign travel you are trying to keep…
The Trials and Tribulations of the Tribe…
Waking up in camp, it was a beautiful moderately warm morning with a stunning blue sky with some scattered fluffy clouds making it ever so slightly overcast. The temperature was that of a sunny spring day here in the UK, so you can forgive me for being greatly deceived by this. Once breakfast was over,…
Discovering more than just wildlife…
An Eerie and Disturbing Route to the Mountains…
The journey to Kisoro was long but it came with many redeeming and not so redeeming features. The Ugandan landscape is breathtaking, a patchwork of history as well as being a very fertile landscape with much of it showing agricultural use. There are many rainforests and rolling hills in Uganda, a vast contrast to the…
Climbing a misty and mysterious mountain…
Crossing the Equator to the Lakes…
The Discovery of an African Love Story…
Don’t stop me now, I want to break free…
You might have guessed from the title, there is a rather famous link to my final destination…Zanzibar! Zanzibar was where the lead singer Freddie Mercury (Farrokh Bulsara) of the famous rock group Queen, was born. Part of my tour on this island would take me to his hometown. We will get to that… Departing Nairobi,…
The Mysterious Imitation Game…
The title of this piece refers to the sign (photographed), that imitates that of the Hollywood sign, yet it appears to be shrouded in mystery as does Madagascar itself… Madagascar the island of immense history, has a biodiversity like no other and the title of a Dreamworks movie that had every potential of putting this…