Sydney & Katoomba - Australia January 2008 Never, ever, ever, ever, ever travel with excess baggage! This is especially so when travelling in a country where you can get everything you could possibly need but this being my first time I was yet to discover the joys of travelling light. Standing outside a hotel in …
Perth to Esperance - Western Australia October 2007 As far as nights out go this had been a pretty good, albeit a casual one as we parked up on bar stalls downing pre-mixed cans of Jack and coke and flirting away with the blond bar tender in our usual boyish ways. Unfortunately it had come …
Sossusvlei to Cape Town - Namibia to South Africa June 2008 Namibia is vast, an impression I got at Spitzkoppe, the same impression I got while admiring the view under a parachute, and the same impression I got when we arrived at our “almost bush camp”, the first night after leaving Swakopmund. I say it …
Swakopmund - Namibia June 2008 Both surprisingly and unsurprisingly I awoke relatively late in the morning. Unsurprisingly because I was super comfortable and I can sleep better than most hibernating bears yet, surprisingly because in a few hours’ time I was scheduled to jump out of a plane. I had done a skydive five years …
Spitzkoppe to Swakopmund - Namibia June 2008 Spitzkoppe is one of those places you have never heard about and one I would never have visited if it hadn’t been for the tour. As we drove out into the vast Namib desert all I knew was that we were off to see a giant rock, Africa’s …
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