Spotting the Big 5 at Mt Kenya
After a couple of nights in Nairobi, and a full day visiting the Sheldrake Wildlife Orphanage, Langatta Giraffe Centre and Karen Blixen Museum, our Two's a Crowd group...
After a couple of nights in Nairobi, and a full day visiting the Sheldrake Wildlife Orphanage, Langatta Giraffe Centre and Karen Blixen Museum, our Two's a Crowd group...
They say when you first arrive at a new destination that sits at a high altitude - anything over about 2500 metres - you should rest immediately, lay down...
The Amazon... the very words just ooze mystique, adventure and, well, wildlife. And so I find myself sitting in a bird hide off the Tambopata River in the Amazon...
I'm standing on a cliff face overlooking the Pacific Ocean getting ready to jump. No it's not a metaphor. Or a cry for help. I'm harnessed up, ready to...
When we first started telling people we were heading to Peru the most common question we got was 'Why?". Even people who had hears of Machu Picchu...
The first time we came to Italy I couldn't wait to get out of there. It was hot, dirty and we got ripped off everywhere we went - and...
I'm caught, stuck. I know I should be ordering a salad roll, something healthy for lunch, but the cakes here look so good. Florentines, cream-filled buns...
The rain is teeming down and we're stuck, holed up in the souvenir shop at the Roman Forum. We've already seen the Colosseum, spent the morning wandering...
It's early afternoon when I step out onto the streets of Vancouver to explore this bustling city on my own. I've just been for a guided tour...
I didn't think much of Calgary when I first arrived. It looked very industrial, a very uninviting city centre. Turns out I turned the wrong way...