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THE DREADED ENDANGERED ATEWA RANGE

GHANA | Saturday, 10 Jan 2026 | Views [43]

  After a five-mile walk in the Bobiri Butterfly Sanctuary where we saw few butterflies and even fewer birds—only Tessman’s Flycatcher was new, we continued on to the tiny town of New Tafo on Thursday where we spent two nights. There ... Read more >


LARABANGA ANCIENT MOSQUE

GHANA | Wednesday, 7 Jan 2026 | Views [38]

  The trip itinerary had us detouring three hours on a notoriously terrible road to see the Egyptian Plover, a highlight for most birders. I thought Richard would hug us when Connie said we had seen the Plover in Cameroon. Even so, it was along ... Read more >


A WALK IN THE PARK

GHANA | Tuesday, 6 Jan 2026 | Views [35]

  James continued his battle with hoards of tsetse flies as we hiked along the park’s dirt roads early this morning—even with Richard’s chauffeuring we’ve been walking six miles or more each day. None of the safari vehicles ... Read more >


MOLE NATIONAL PARK

GHANA | Monday, 5 Jan 2026 | Views [33]

  Pity Poor Richard. He was behind the wheel for eleven hours on Sunday and he will have to drive us more than 500 KM back on Wednesday. But for now he is ferrying us around Mole National Park, Ghana’s largest. No more humid rain forest, Mole ... Read more >


WHITE-NECKED ROCKFOWL

GHANA | Saturday, 3 Jan 2026 | Views [45]

  Yesterday we retraced our route back to the Rain Forest Lodge, stopping again along the Gold Coast at the World Heritage Cape Coast Castle to look for the West African Crested Tern. This time we were lucky and Connie added another bird to her ... Read more >


ANKASA RESERVE

GHANA | Friday, 2 Jan 2026 | Views [39]

  Richard had another long day of driving. We broke the five hour, 150-mile trip along the Gold Coast with a stop to look (unsuccessfully) for the West African Crested Tern but were rewarded with distant views of UNESCO World Heritage Elmina Castle.... Read more >


Notes from Ghana

GHANA | Wednesday, 31 Dec 2025 | Views [39]

# If Rain Forest Lodge is any indication, our accommodations here in Ghana will top every sub-Saharan country except South Africa. # Chips (fries) are not made with potatoes but with plantain. The pineapple could be the best we’ve ever tasted ... Read more >


On the Loose in Ghana

GHANA | Tuesday, 30 Dec 2025 | Views [36]

  James, the head wildlife guide for Ashanti Tours, and Richard, our driver, picked us up on Sunday morning, manhandled our luggage into the Toyota 4X4 and whisked us off to Shai Hills, the start of our Ghana birding. Or they would have whisked ... Read more >


Going, Going . . . Ghana

GHANA | Thursday, 25 Dec 2025 | Views [40]

  Our flight left Heathrow on Christmas Eve at about the same time Santa started out from the North Pole. Rather than take the non-stop British Air flight from London to Accra, we saved $400 by flying Royal Air Moroc and spending the night in an ... Read more >


EVOLUTION

UNITED KINGDOM | Tuesday, 23 Dec 2025 | Views [173]

The Galapagos Islands is the laboratory where Charles Darwin began developing his theory of evolution in 1835 . It took him more than 20 years of mulling, prodding from geologist Charles Lyell and botanist Joseph Hooker and competition from Alfred Russel ... Read more >


BATTLE ABBEY

UNITED KINGDOM | Saturday, 20 Dec 2025 | Views [138]

The English are a strange lot. They consider the Battle of Hastings one of the most famous events in English history. It was the only time that England was invaded by a foreign power, their king was slain on the battlefield and their army was soundly ... Read more >


A MEDIEVAL CHRISTMAS

UNITED KINGDOM | Wednesday, 17 Dec 2025 | Views [151]

We finished our Christmas letter—even checked it twice—and (e)mailed it off to all of the good little boy and girls. If you didn’t get yours, try to be nicer next year. When we still felt that we needed a little Christmas—right ... Read more >


BLETCHLEY HOUSE

UNITED KINGDOM | Saturday, 13 Dec 2025 | Views [149]

Despite English Heritage sites going back in time from castles, priories and monasteries to Roman villas and even Neolithic sites, John’s favorite site opened for business in 1939. Its existence wasn’t known to the general public until 1970 ... Read more >


CAMBRIDGE

UNITED KINGDOM | Tuesday, 9 Dec 2025 | Views [143]

Cambridge seemed like a good compromise. It’s only an hour train ride from London but not too far from East Anglia’s English Heritage sites. John picked our AirBnB, in part, for the free parking, a real luxury in this college town. It’... Read more >


OSBORNE HOUSE

UNITED KINGDOM | Friday, 5 Dec 2025 | Views [138]

You might wonder why we are visiting the Isle of Wight at this cold and dreary time of year. The short answer would be Osborne House. Faced with a growing family and the increasing pressures of court life, Queen Victoria pined for “a place of ... Read more >


ISLE OF WIGHT

UNITED KINGDOM | Thursday, 4 Dec 2025 | Views [135]

ISLE OF WIGHT     Do you remember verse from the old Beatles’ song “When I’m 64”? ♫ Every summer we can rent a cottage in the Isle of Wight, if it′s not too dear ♫ Well, here we are . . . it isn’t too ... Read more >


DEAL AND WALMER CASTLES

UNITED KINGDOM | Sunday, 30 Nov 2025 | Views [168]

When Henry VIII wasn’t busy tearing down churches, monasteries and abbeys or doing away with excess-to-needs wives, he indulged his paranoia by building castles. Actually more like fortresses, some 30 “castles” were constructed as part ... Read more >


AROUND CANTERBURY

UNITED KINGDOM | Saturday, 29 Nov 2025 | Views [169]

   It rained hard on Thursday and Saturday’s forecast isn’t much better. Today would be the best day for birding at Stodmarsh National Nature Reserve. It took us a half-hour for he eight-mile drive on England’s narrow, winding ... Read more >


LONDON: DUKE OF WELLINGTON

UNITED KINGDOM | Wednesday, 26 Nov 2025 | Views [238]

The temperature was forecast to never get much above freezing so we bundled up for the walk to Earl’s Court Underground station. Thirty minutes later we were at Russell Square with only a short walk to the British Museum.   The Museum ... Read more >


LONDON: VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM

UNITED KINGDOM | Tuesday, 25 Nov 2025 | Views [225]

The Eurostar “Chunnel” train from Paris to London may cost a bit more than flying but it is much more civilized. We cleared both EU and UK immigration at Gare du Lyon in Paris, carried our own luggage onto the train and were in London in ... Read more >


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