Formerly known as German South West Africa, current day Namibia is a peculiar shape. In the northeast corner is a 500km long, narrow salient, rather like a pan handle, sandwiched between Angola in the north and Botswana in the south,…
Author: Franco
Moving House
[5th July was getting a bit long so here’s an addendum covering a couple of days.] I’m used to seeing birds following moving items. Seagulls often follow tractors ploughing fields and Francine and I have watched a gang of Black…
Posted in 2022 Botswana
A Mystery Solved
It is not often that I am left mystified by food. However, our Maun hotel dinner menu had featured as accompanying options: chips, mashed potato or pap. Pap? More of that later. We’d heard hippo noises overnight; well, in the…
Posted in 2022 Botswana
Tsodilo Hills
OK, cards on the table up front – this was not going to be my kind of day. Tsodilo Hills is a UNESCO World Heritage Site with rock paintings dating back 3,000 years. There are rock shelters, too. So, this…
Posted in 2022 Botswana
United in Shakawe
Having arrived in South Africa on Saturday and made it by the skin of our teeth to Botswana, sans luggage, we hadn’t had much time to draw breath. Once on hotel wi-fi, though, Francine, had received an email from Air-Link…
Posted in 2022 Botswana
Staffing Issues
Time for another go at travelling after two years worth of Covid-19 disruption. Our first attempt, which went reasonably well, had been an Explore! walking trip to Lanzarote in March. We made that journey on easyJet with masks having to…
Posted in 2022 Botswana
César Manrique
This was our day to depart Lanzarote but we were not due to leave for the airport until 17:00. So, having heard the name César Manrique on a daily basis for the last week, we thought we’d spend much of…
Posted in 2022 Lanzarote
Earworms and Nudists
Yes, I thought that might get your attention. But first [he said, losing 10 points for beginning not just a sentence but a paragraph with a conjunction, in true modern BBC fashion], we began with “a result” [back to the…
Posted in 2022 Lanzarote
My High Point
The trip notes set today’s scene: Today’s moderate 12 kilometre walk is expected to take approximately four-and-a-half hours with a total ascent of 450 metres and descent of 650 metres. Our start point for the walk was Haria, to which…
Posted in 2022 Lanzarote
Meet My Mate
Today was designated as a free day in the tour itinerary. I’m not usually a fan of free days on such tours ‘cos it leaves me wondering what to do. On this occasion, though, with my leg muscles aching from…
Posted in 2022 Lanzarote
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