baby boomer travel
Baby Elephants Tug at the Heart Strings, Nairobi How travel broadens the mind. In this case having dinner with other trekkers who asked if we’d seen the baby elephants at Sheldrick Elephant and Wildlife Orphanage in Nairobi. No, we hadn’t but were super keen. What better way to finish off the incredible and humbling Wildlife Safari we had Read More …
Watching thousands of King Penguins going about their daily lives, many weighing in at around 15kg and standing around 1m high, is “a once seen never forgotten” experience. On a 24 day small group photography tour to Antarctica in 2013, the days were exciting and diverse. Antarctica – the White Continent – is definitely one Read More …
Did you know the Arctic King Crab, a highly sought after delicacy around the world, can grow 1.8 metres in length and weigh up to 15 kg!!!! Well, here I was in Finland, travelling at speed across a frozen fjord in a sledge to catch, cook and eat the mouth-watering crustacean. An unforgettable experience that is Read More …
Story Bridge Climb – An Adventure Waiting Let’s do a bridge climb! There are three organised bridge climbs in the world – all unique in their own way. Brisbane Story Bridge, Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Auckland Harbour Bridge. Thousands of cars travel across these massive steel and concrete monsters each day and now hundreds of Read More …
With a stomach still full of freshly cooked Arctic King Crab, our next stop was the Snowhotel, Kirkenes. Here the promise was to spend a luxurious night on an “ice bed!”
Did you know that Taormina in Sicily is called the Pearl of the Mediterranean? Well I didn’t, and after visiting this charming 5th century medieval town the word Pearl doesn’t do it justice. Sitting on top of a 200m cliff on the Ionian Coastline it offers a view and idyllic holiday location that has few rivals.
Dubrovnik, Croatia, on the Dalmatian coastline of the Adriatic Sea (Mediterranean) is truly a Pearl of a Place. Some people haven’t even heard of the port – many think it’s in Turkey, e.g. me! Dubrovnik is a city where you can enjoy the best of both modern and medieval times. Despite the ravages of recent troubles Read More …
You want me to WHAT!! This was the response I gave to my daughter when she asked me to climb Mt Kilimanjaro, the Mother of all Hills in Africa. Anyway, to cut a long story short I agreed, even though it wasn’t on my bucket list! After all as Edmund Hillary said “it’s not the Read More …
