I’m sure we’ve spoken about our good friends Bethany and Felipe before. I don’t believe in fate and I’m not superstitious but it really has always seemed like we were meant to know them and stay friends no matter what.
Continue reading “Safari time in Mozambique and Eswatini”
Nell was born on April 23rd, 2010, in the county of Essex and shared her birthday with Shakespeare. Little is known of her parentage or siblings but, judging by a DNA test done in later life, it is unlikely that either parent were anything but mixed breeds themselves. The DNA test showed the following results: American Bulldog (expected) 38%, American Staffordshire Terrier (no surprise) 25%, Boston Terrier (unexpected) 12%, Border Collie (very unexpected) 12.5% leaving the remaining 12.5% as ‘other’.
Continue reading “Nell, 23rd April 2010 – 9th Feb 2024. A good dog.”
Ok, yes, it’s been a while. A long while. There’s no excuse really. We just lost the motivation to keep it going. I am writing this while in São Paulo, Brazil at the start of our next adventure but I’m going to catch up on some key things that happened during the rest of our time in Ghana first.
April break and what to do? We thought about a range of different options but I had been thinking about a trip to The Gambia for some time. The reason for this is that my parents visited there twice. In fact, their last trip there was one of their last proper holidays that they took together before my mum was diagnosed with cancer.
Continue reading “A Gamble on The Gambia”
Our drive back to Nairobi was uneventful although I should add to my last post that on the way to Naivasha we got stopped by the police for crossing a solid line which, funnily enough, was the same reason we last got stopped in Myanmar. It is apparently, an easy scam to pull off.
Continue reading “A Kenyan Christmas (Part 2)”
The December holiday at our new school is even longer than it was in our last school at a mouth watering 3 and a half weeks. Here we are in Africa with our dream of going on safari ahead of us but the only problem was cost. It turns out that you can’t actually afford to go on safari for three odd weeks, it’s just too expensive.
Continue reading “A Kenyan Christmas (Part 1)”
I wrote this post originally while on the plane from Bangkok to London and I will copy that post as I wrote it below here. The reality is that a lot more has happened with Nell since that time so I am going to expand the post with some other info from before and afterwards. To be honest, this is one of those memoir posts for us more than anyone else so feel free to skip it
Continue reading “Dog Days”
This was our April 2023 break over the holiday of the Myanmar New Year holiday called Thingyan. Our trip started with a flight to Kuala Lumpur with the novelty of actually leaving the airport. We have been through KL Airport so many times that we probably know it better than Heathrow but just never got to leave before. We were immediately struck by the large number of skyscrapers on the way to the hotel.
Continue reading “Malaysian Moments”
We recently had a long weekend and wanted to take the opportunity to visit our friends in Bangkok. They are stark reminders that things are far from normal in Myanmar as they both work for NGOs that cannot operate effectively in the country. Like many they left the country at around the same time we did but unlike us, have never returned.
Continue reading “Thailand Trips”
One of the big advantages of working in a school in South East Asia is a long break in December when the weather is usually pretty good. Our first year we went to Indonesia diving and then to Bagan. The next year was Sri Lanka right before the pandemic hit. Our third year we were stuck in Yangon and our fourth year we were basically stuck in Thailand and spent it in Chang Mai. After 2 years this was our next and last chance to travel in the region. We decided on going back to two of our favourite places namely the temple complex in Siem Reap in Cambodia and then Vietnam.
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