Category Archives: Travel
Oman and desert nights
The Desert. Oh Arabian Nights! I wanted the real desert, not the desert of oil pipe lines and gas flares. I wanted golden dunes and mysterious silence, camels and glamorous bedouin tents, not the scrubby rolled stone and boiled sand … Continue reading
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Oman: land of contrasts and magic
Oman is a country of contrasts. Muscat runs like a sliver along the coast, ancient forts and highways, palm tree dotted roads, decorated roundabouts and shiny sky scrapers; blue tiled mosques, a winding labringth of a souk and five star … Continue reading
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Change of Plan, change of heart.
This past week I have seen many of my firmly held assumptions come tumbling down. There have been some rather shaky stereotypes that have been knocked and my ideas renewed. When we travel, as tourists, our impressions may add to … Continue reading
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Lazy days of summer
I am back. I am not sure if I haven’t lost my faithful readers of 3limes during my summer hiatus, it was the longest break in the the 3 years I have been writing. 3 years that has seen me … Continue reading
Filed under Great Big Shiny West, La belle ville, Photography, Travel
The classroom is a safer place, perhaps.
So now I have written my four posts about the Kenayapalooza Road trip that was, and having been back for two weeks now and back at school for one it is starting to feel like it all happened some time … Continue reading
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Hot bath, Great Dane, Aussies in Distress but no Leopards.
We were greeted by a collection of cheerful dogs, ranging from Obelisk the magnificent Great Dane to Sock the Daschund puppy with one white foot. The children poured out of the cars and began to embrace and hop about with … Continue reading
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Leaving the beach, meeting some Swedes and driving to Nakuru.
Leaving the beach is always hard. My family belong to the tribe of beach bums: for us the ocean is our world. While some in our group described themselves as “Mountain Men” and kept a wide berth from the salt … Continue reading
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Two nights camping in Tsavo
Camping. I am not a camper, many of you might have realized this by now. I sort of wish I was, you know, the sort of person to embrace the whole sleeping in a tent, cooking over an open fire, … Continue reading
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Road trip stories
Well I am back and have survived the Let’s Cross Kenya in 11 days road trip. It will take more than one post to write about it, after all I did cross the breadth of Kenya, bathed in the Indian … Continue reading
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