Buongiorno Venice!
Our first full day in Venice! We slept hard last night as we recovered from jetlag and travelling. Woke up, got ready, took the lift downstairs and were about to…
We’ve Arrived
We arrived at Santa Lucia station last night after quite a journey. It was not as bad as expected but it was longer than we wanted it to be. And…
Planes, Trains, Automobiles, Kayaks, and Canoes!
Well as you saw in the last post, we got on in 40A and 40B. Two seats together by themselves and let me just that United did a really, really…
Where In The World
We’ve been thinking about travelling somewhere over the holiday season but we agreed it had to be standby and not using miles. So I’ve been watching flights all over the…
Oh The Things You’ll See
Just a collection of random trip thoughts and experiences. When we arrived at our first camp in the bush, the host was showing us our room when a spider crawled…
Africa Videos
Our internet access was intermittent and slow when we had it. Uploading a post could take an hour. So we didn’t upload any videos while we were on our trip.…
Coming Home
On our last morning in Franschhoek we enjoyed breakfast in the dining room of our farmhouse and then our driver took us to the Cape Town airport, about an hour…
Franschhoek
The final stop of our trip was in a town called Franschhoek, which translates to “French Corner” from Afrikaans. Franschhoek was settled by Europeans starting in 1688 with the Huguenots…
Cape of Good Hope
On our last morning in Cape Town we had planned to hire a driver to take us to the Cape of Good Hope and then onwards to our final stop…
Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa
This place is rocking the art world right now. Mainly because of the setting. Just looking at you’d never know this was an art museum. There was an old grain…