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Iguazu Falls (Argentina)
The day after visiting the Brazil side of Iguazu Falls, I explored the Argentinian side. This side has less of…
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Iguazu Falls (Brazil)
One of the reasons for going to South America was to visit Iguazu Falls. I’ve always had a passion for…
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Pink Lakes, Stargazing, and Wildflowers
In a previous post, I talked about places you could visit within day trips from Perth. However, while I was…
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Landscape of the Outer Hebrides
When you look on a map, the Outer Hebrides look pretty remote and uninteresting, and you might wonder what they…
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Five Days in Lesotho
I only had five days in Lesotho, but it was enough to let me see that it’s a particularly beautiful…
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The Matapos and Cecil Rhodes
It’s hard to talk about Africa and not mention colonialism; its effects down here in Southern Africa were a bit…
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A Day Trip to Chobe National Park
Botswana – cue images of hippos, elephants, and crocodiles, easily visible on a luxury safari. When places like Mole National…
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A Day Trip to Victoria Falls, Zambia
To most people, the name “Victoria Falls” conjures up an image of a vast cascade of water, a loud and…
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Visiting Ghana’s Mole National Park
Africa. To the average Brit, the very name invokes images of vast grasslands, plains with shrubberies, dust-capped faded green mountain…
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Out on the wiley, windy moors …
Yorkshire. The word conjurers up a myriad of images, from rolling moors to seaside cliffs, from cricket to rugby league,…
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Peaks and Troughs
Sometimes, some of the nicest places in the world are just on your doorstep, and one of the nicest areas…
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Song Kol
Song-Kol Lake, complete with stony beach. Yes I did throw stones into it, because I’m a big kid. It’s peaceful…
Nature & Wildlife
A lot of the world is rural, or at least, countryside. These posts are where I go out of the urban sprawl and place myself in nature and the natural environment. Usually this means finding a hill, sticking a flower between my toes, or looking out over endless fields of sheep and cows. Sometimes the wildlife is a bit more substantial, like elephants and hippopotami.
I’ve still never seen a badger or a snake in the wild.
