We’re on the road home now but that doesn’t mean the adventure is over quite yet. The first big event is Nick’s birthday……. and he’s...

It'a over 200km from Maun and the Okavango Delta to our next destination in the Ntwetwe Pan National Park. The road is pretty good -...

We're all really looking forward to this next leg of the journey; the Okavango Delta is famous for the beauty of its landscape and the...

Our friends Janet and Chris are due to arrive later today, so we have the day to explore. The Victoria Falls National Park has been...

We're heading briefly from Namibia into Botswana en route to Zimbabwe. Our journey takes us past the now familiar rural settlements with...

This weeks blog has had a very watery theme,as we've spent time in the Okavango Panhandle area in the north of Botswana; on the shores of...

We head for Etosha National Park for this next phase of our journey... a full-on safari experience and our hopes are high. The park is...

Our next stop is an area of privately owned land where the fences have been removed in order to promote the free movement of wildlife. We...

We leave Namibgrens headed for the Namibian big hitter, Sossusvlei. We’ll be visiting ‘Big Daddy’ - the area's highest sand dune and...

Walvis Bay is a port town, it's dusty and functional, no one could accuse it of being picturesque but it is a friendly and relaxed place...

Our younger daughter Katie, drops us off at Gatwick and the whole process of checking in and going through security which is usually so...

Who in their right minds would put their family home on the market; sell it; pack and shift almost everything they own into storage; move...

We arrive back in the City of Joy as Kolkata is known, late in the evening and very much ready for our bed. We are staying in the same...

We fly from Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh to Kolkata in West Bengal and spend the night there en route to Darjeeling. It’s another early...

‘In this holy city, humanity exists at its most intense. The noise is unceasing, the traffic rages day and night, and pollution sits...

Today we are going to a place called Bundi. This is another of Ravi’s recommendations, we’ve never even heard of Bundi! It’s another long...

It’s very difficult sometimes to put your finger on what it is that makes you like or dislike something, and so it proves to be with...

We’re on a bit of a journey in this blog, visiting a few places on our way to Udaipur. First stop Kumbhalgarh. Our hotel is a couple...

Today we are bound for another of Rajasthan’s famous cities, Jodhpur or the Blue City as it is otherwise known. It’s called the Blue...

The drive from Bikaner is long so we make a couple of breaks in the journey. The first is recommended to us by Mahendra and Bhawna, it...