Tanzania: Olduvai Gorge and Ngorongoro Crater
Our last safari stop in Tanzania was Ngorongoro Crater. An old volcanic crater with a lake and a river running through it. The crater is surrounded by steep sides of about 1500 feet. Since...
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Tanzania: The Serengeti – Animals Galore
Serengeti (Endless Land in Swahili) National Park was our favorite safari destination. Mostly because the quantity and variety of animals was really better than the other parks (but the Mara was close). Here we...
Kenya and the Masai Mara
We flew direct from London to Kenya. It was a long flight of 8+ hours. We got to Nairobi in the evening and were met by our Safari company and taken to the hotel....
London and Leaving the UK
We needed a break from the unfamiliar. The UK really felt like a second home to us. We really enjoyed every nook and cranny and hope to return many times. We spent our last...
The Cornish Kingdom: Southwest England
Our last small trip before returning to London was to the region of Cornwall. Cornwall was surprisingly autonomous for much of Britain’s history. Cornwall even had its own language which didn’t go extinct until...
Roman and Victorian Bath
Bath has a long history like most of the UK. It is doubly famous for the Roman baths built here and because Jane Austen lived there and formed a lot of her story ideas...
Back in England: The Cotswolds
We made our way back to England from Wales, driving through the pretty little villages in the Cotswolds region. This is storybook England with honey colored stone cottages neatly lined up on green lanes....
Hello Wales
We’ve seen the major sites of Wales (big castles like Caernarfon castle and the Snowdon Cog Railway) but we always had some issue (car trouble, illness) that made it feel rushed. We finally enjoyed...
Goodbye Scotland
We have been going through a lull in our travels so haven’t posted much lately. We will try to get back on schedule. I developed a stuffy ear which made it really hard to...
Over the Sea to Skye
We were really looking forward to the Isle of Skye since we really liked our past day trips to the island. We spent a week here but between the weather (rubbish as they say...