Serengeti If there is one park in Tanzania that is famous the world over it has to be the Serengeti National Park. The name Serengeti is almost synonymous with safari and there are few people who have not seen movies or television shows that are based in this park which of course almost always feature the abundant wildlife.   We…

  Making Our Way To The Safari We arrived in the town of Arusha today where we will be starting our safari. I now use the word town to describe Arusha a bit loosely but I’ll get into that a bit later. We travelled quite a bit today leaving the African Villa in Cape Town at about 4 AM as…

I have posted more pictures on my photo website here.   Getting A Taste of South Africa Those of you who know me will know that it’s no surprise that the food that we eat on our Excellent Adventures is pretty important. I think that one of the big reasons that we have travelled to Europe so many times is…

London Calling London is one of those cities that you hear about all of your life and if you’re lucky enough to eventually go there you find that it really does live up to all of its expectations. That’s certainly what Barb and I thought when we came here for our first time 10 years ago and a decade has…

One of the most common things that I hear from people when we get a few days away from going on one of our Excellent Adventures is along the lines “you must be pretty used to going away on these trips”. True enough, there’s a lot in common with the planning stages for most of our trips but I can’t…

It hasn’t escaped me that it’s been 4 months since my last blog post. Without getting into too many excuses, there always seemed to be something else that had to be done and lately the blog has been taking a back seat. Nonetheless, there have been a few things that need to be reported so I’ve made a point of…

Since my last posting in January on the travel planning process for our Excellent African Adventure, a lot has happened. Most importantly, we decided that the political situation in Kenya wasn’t showing the improvements that we had hoped for and subsequently made the decision to avoid Kenya altogether on our trip. As a result, in the past week, we have…

A trip out to the Fraser Valley yesterday all happened on the spur of the moment. I had suggested to Barb that we should get out of the house as I felt like taking some pictures outside in the sunny weather. Barb immediately suggested that we go to the zoo to take some pictures of animals. Could this be a…

The process of travel planning always involves all kinds of research and the discovery of new cultures and sights. Once we’ve decided on a destination, we start doing all of the specific research for the places within that destination that we may want to go to. At this stage, we are usually reading any bit of information that we can…