Jan 5, 2020 | Africa, Morocco
Would the Sahara be any different from Wadi Rum in Jordan’s Arabian Desert or the Namib Desert town of Sossusvlei in Namibia? With Andrea’s five day Christmas break we had enough days to find out, the only issue being whether we head to Erg Chebbi on the...
Dec 30, 2019 | Africa, Morocco
Still recovering from a frostbitten toe and finger the probability of us actually making it to the top of North Africa was looking slim, made worse by the fact that from Marrakesh the Atlas Mountains looked totally white. This wasn’t the sign I was looking for...
Dec 25, 2019 | Africa, Morocco
Prior to arriving in Morocco a month sounded like plenty of time, a time that was unfortunately already cut in half. Being alone for the first two weeks I only got to spend time in the populated Marrakesh and Fes areas so when Andrea arrived it was time to spread our...
Dec 12, 2019 | Africa, Morocco
Whilst Marrakesh is known for its massive influx of tourists the city of Fes would turn out to be far lower key, a good thing as spending the past four nights in the blue city of Chefchaouen was all about narrow streets full of Asians and their selfie sticks! No need...
Jul 5, 2018 | Africa
Exactly 133 days after arriving on the African continent we were sadly saying our farewells. Cape Town had been our arrival city and was now our departure point back to Europe and the US. We both agreed that we could have spent another few weeks here! Other than the...
Jun 16, 2018 | Africa, Malawi
Malawi was looking like another of those countries where we may have been leaving the moment we arrived, with daily reported power cuts, poor Internet and a US Government website declaring that a letter of approval was required for Americans – we needed good...
Jun 6, 2018 | Africa, Zambia
Quite possibly the best bit of travel advice we’ve been given was to add South Luangwa to our list of African destinations. Coupled with the Cape Epic mountain bike race this was the only thing planned in advance and definitely the costliest of anything we did...
May 24, 2018 | Africa, Rwanda
Our arrival into Kigali’s small but modern airport late in the evening made us slightly apprehensive, mostly due to us having no idea as to the safety nor location of our accommodation. That was good enough reason to take the Ivuka Art Gallery transportation....
May 20, 2018 | Africa, Uganda
Lake Bunyonyi and Bwindi Impenetrable National Park provided us an exciting insight into Uganda, a country that even in the six days we visited offered so much. We had planned to move beyond the extreme southwest corner but for two reasons had to reconsider –...
May 8, 2018 | Africa, Uganda
Donate Now During our time in Bwindi National Park in Southwest Uganda my wife Andrea and I made the decision to visit two community orphanages/ primary schools in an attempt to gain an insight into the conditions the local children have to endure; we were not...
May 1, 2018 | Africa, Rwanda
All we knew about Rwanda prior to our arrival was that at some point not too long ago they had suffered through a genocide and that more recently their Mountain Gorilla permits had been raised from $750 per person to $1500; something to do with wanting to attract a...
Apr 28, 2018 | Africa, Botswana
Although premium lodges and high-end tourism are the norm in this landlocked country we did manage to survive on somewhat of a budget. We had already visited for a full hour whilst heading from Namibia to Zimbabwe, a brief encounter that included a dead zebra and...
