SOUTH AFRICA | Monday, 1 Oct 2012 | Views [967]
For travellers who’ve been going eastwards
round the world, taking a five hour flight westwards from Mauritius to Cape
Town was a bit of a wrench but that’s what happens when airlines pull flights
for commercial reasons. Despite Anna’s best efforts ... Read more >
MAURITIUS | Sunday, 23 Sep 2012 | Views [842]
We travelled to what seemed like the end of
the earth and found paradise…on two little dots in the Indian Ocean off
southern Africa beyond Madagascar: Mauritius and its little sister island
Rodrigues, 650 kms further east.
Never heard of Rodrigues? ... Read more >
MAURITIUS | Sunday, 23 Sep 2012 | Photo Gallery
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UNITED KINGDOM | Friday, 21 Sep 2012 | Views [602]
We got very lucky flying out of Berlin on
Friday. Lufthansa’s entire flight staff were on strike (after being asked to
take a hefty pay cut) and we were on a Lufthansa ticket. Fortunately their
subsidiary British Midland Airways wasn’t and we got ... Read more >
GERMANY | Wednesday, 12 Sep 2012 | Photo Gallery
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GERMANY | Wednesday, 12 Sep 2012 | Views [882]
Sunday
A reunion with the Grutzner family in
Germany was a key part of our Gap Yah planning. I hadn’t been to Peitz since
1990, when I took Christina and a 9-year-old Manuela home from Paris after
their very first trip to the West, and ... Read more >
FRANCE | Wednesday, 5 Sep 2012 | Views [672]
Every journey begins with but a single step
and ours started at 5.30 am in a bid to beat the traffic flowing north into
France. You won’t be surprised to read that there were moments early on when we
were the only people on the road and worried ... Read more >
SPAIN | Friday, 31 Aug 2012 | Views [738]
Monday
We can’t say we weren’t warned: Barcelona
in August is like sticking your head in the oven and finding you can’t escape
when you’re cooked! The temperature didn’t drop below 30 degrees all week, even
in the wee hours. Thank God for our ... Read more >
FRANCE | Wednesday, 22 Aug 2012 | Views [846]
Going cruising on a canal is a wondrous
change of pace because there’s a speed limit of 8 km/h in France and every time
you feel like doing anything energetic, you arrive at a lock with a restaurant
nearby and the lock keeper has gone to lunch.... Read more >
FRANCE | Friday, 17 Aug 2012 | Views [772]
Day One
After a long day in the car from Erlangen
it was delightful to slip into Jura time and wander the village this morning.
In the afternoon we did the same in neighbouring Treffort. These delightful
little towns struggle to keep the ... Read more >
GERMANY | Friday, 17 Aug 2012 | Views [852]
When you’ve crossed the Pacific in a
one-er, the Atlantic seems like a pond. Lufthansa did a good job getting us
over but we have to say the world spins too fast. When you take a seven hour
flight ex NY starting at 6pm US time, it’s only about ... Read more >
USA | Wednesday, 8 Aug 2012 | Views [614]
Friday
We set off from Brooklyn for the ultimate
tourist experience of a cruise on the Hudson River and around the Statue of
Liberty. Turned out it was us, a couple of locals and about 300 Chinese
visitors who are very keen on all things ... Read more >
USA | Tuesday, 7 Aug 2012 | Views [505]
Travelling to the eastern US without going to New York is a bit like having a bath
with your socks on, so off we went on Tuesday July 31.
It’s only a four hour drive from Bawston and
what’s more, you can collect states. You start in Massachusetts ... Read more >
USA | Monday, 6 Aug 2012 | Photo Gallery
Hitting the Big Apple
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USA | Sunday, 29 Jul 2012 | Views [601] | Comments [2]
Thursday: Last day in Magog, Canada
Andrew and Henry played golf on the nearby Hermitage
9-hole course, which is nestled between the lake and a lovely forest. They
barely saw another soul and Henry’s golf was a triumph of experience over
youth.... Read more >
CANADA | Thursday, 26 Jul 2012 | Photo Gallery
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CANADA | Thursday, 26 Jul 2012 | Views [721]
Montreal 1
Brandy Ho’s in San Fran was a significant step up from our
previous Chinese dinner and we were in good shape to get the plane to Montreal
on Saturday afternoon. Air Canada got
off to an indifferent start by charging us $C45 to ... Read more >
USA | Saturday, 21 Jul 2012 | Views [717] | Comments [2]
Day Three continued: We went along to the Beach Blanket Babylon cabaret in the evening (thanks Richard, thanks Haysey) and enjoyed it enormously. Hillary Clinton and Tina Turner were my favorite send-ups. Amazing to think they have reinvented that show ... Read more >
USA | Friday, 20 Jul 2012 | Views [912] | Comments [1]
It's a heck of thing to look in your passport to
find you haven't been out of the country for two and a half years but that's
what we discovered while waiting to board United Flight 870 at Sydney airport:
but it certainly heightens the anticipation.... Read more >
USA | Friday, 20 Jul 2012 | Photo Gallery
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