Uganda – Day 7
What a surprise …. up at the crack of dawn for an early breakfast and once again checking out. We really enjoyed Enjojo, could have easily stayed there another night, but time to move on ….. closer and closer to our goal for the whole trip ….. the gorillas! We started the day with another […]
Uganda – Day 6
Once again we were up nice and early, fed, watered and throwing our bags in the jeep before 7am. The aim today was to drive south to the Ishasha part of the National Park. This area is famous for it’s tree-climbing lions. We’d actually been very lucky having seen lions in the cactus tree 2 […]
Ripped off in Rome
If something looks too good to be true ......
I’m Inter-Railing through Europe and although I had been somewhat nervy a few weeks earlier at the start of this trip, being my first ever adventure away from home, I was starting to feel a bit more relaxed about this whole backpacking business. I’m in Rome with my then girlfriend Karen and we’re towards the […]
Uganda – Day 5
Once again we were up bright and breezy for a looong game drive in Queen Elizabeth National Park. Sometimes the game drive Gods are just not with you and today was one of those days, so by midday we cut our losses and headed towards a nice picnic area on the edge of Lake Edward […]
Uganda – Day 4
Before leaving Isunga Lodge today I got out my drone and tried to take some footage around this place. It truly has an awesome location and I wanted to try and catch that if possible in a few sweeping shots around the gardens and terrace. I’ve only had this thing for about a year now, […]
Uganda – Day 3
It’s an early start indeed with a 5am alarm waking us to the first birdsong of the day. Today we’re trekking chimpanzees! We’ve been warned that it’s not for the faint hearted and although the activity is booked for the whole day with the local guides its pretty much unheard of that anyone lasts longer […]
The Casio VDB1000
The telepathic watch ....
I’m about to leave on my first ever backpack trip and my boss has decided to give me a leaving present; a watch. It’s not just any old watch though, it’s a real beauty actually. Now remember, this is the early 1990’s, years before people had mobile phones, email addresses or even used the internet. […]
The ‘Big Trips’ Part 1
My early years of travelling abroad were basically two long trips away. The first from London to Bali, going through Europe, Africa and Asia. The second from Alaska to Tierra Del Fuego, which was my version of Pole to Pole through the Americas. I called these my ‘Big Trips’ and after I came back home […]
Uganda – Day 1 & 2
I woke up feeling a million dollars compared to yesterday and after a quick breakfast we set off on quite a long drive south to our first stop, being the Kibale Forest. Having been a bit out of it when we arrived last night I didn’t really spend a lot of time chatting with our […]
Turkish delight
Faith in mankind restored
Anyone who has been to Turkey will know that any tourist walking through the street is likely to be befriended at some point by someone selling rugs, or killens as they’re called in Turkey, and this particular evening was no different for me in Antalya, on the Turkish Mediterranean coast. By now I had become […]