My parents are thinking of going to Africa in the next couple of years - on safari or something with my uncle and aunt. Apart from steering them as far away from Zimbabwe as possible (the other hot spots, such as Congo, Sudan, Ethiopia, should be jumping out of the guide book like sore thumbs, but Zimmers was still getting a good rating in the book Mum is reading, two years old and all) - apart from steering them away from pumping money into Mugabe's regime, I am leaving them alone to select the best game park, country whatever.
Mum said she would like to do Egypt as well as South Africa or Botswana or Kenya or Tanzania, whichever they get around to visiting, which is kind of like saying you would like to do Bangkok as well as Sydney, distance wise - hold it, I will do a google of the distances involved... yeah, I was only out by 200 kays with that guess.
Anyways, what all this is leading up to is that I was looking at my Middle East trip pictures - yes, the one where I didn't wake up in time to catch the transport to the Dawn Service on Anzac Day - out of all the stupid things I have done in my life I think that is the worst. Make the effort of going all the way over to Turkey, and then missing that. I did get to Lone Pine and Chunuk Bair for the Anzac Day services, and I got to Anzac Cove on the 26th of April, but yeah, that is just so much trying to justify myself LOL.
Anyways, was looking at the pictures of the trip, and had a brain wave, wondering whether the company which took me around the place in those ancient (for the internet) days had a website up and running. And lo and behold, they do. So I was stuck looking at that site, reminiscing for at least a couple of hours yesterday - yes, travel does have that sort of hold on me.
And then I remembered that I kept a diary of the trip, that I haven't read in hmm about five years or so, so I went and found that. And had a bit of a read - it was a great trip, and 1998 was one of the quieter years in that part of the world. Apart from 70 tourists getting killed in Egypt about six months before I arrived.
Will have to blog about what happened in Sydney over the weekend - those 'race riots' - in another post, don't want to kill this nice travel buzz I am having at the moment.
Pauly
Mum said she would like to do Egypt as well as South Africa or Botswana or Kenya or Tanzania, whichever they get around to visiting, which is kind of like saying you would like to do Bangkok as well as Sydney, distance wise - hold it, I will do a google of the distances involved... yeah, I was only out by 200 kays with that guess.
Anyways, what all this is leading up to is that I was looking at my Middle East trip pictures - yes, the one where I didn't wake up in time to catch the transport to the Dawn Service on Anzac Day - out of all the stupid things I have done in my life I think that is the worst. Make the effort of going all the way over to Turkey, and then missing that. I did get to Lone Pine and Chunuk Bair for the Anzac Day services, and I got to Anzac Cove on the 26th of April, but yeah, that is just so much trying to justify myself LOL.
Anyways, was looking at the pictures of the trip, and had a brain wave, wondering whether the company which took me around the place in those ancient (for the internet) days had a website up and running. And lo and behold, they do. So I was stuck looking at that site, reminiscing for at least a couple of hours yesterday - yes, travel does have that sort of hold on me.
And then I remembered that I kept a diary of the trip, that I haven't read in hmm about five years or so, so I went and found that. And had a bit of a read - it was a great trip, and 1998 was one of the quieter years in that part of the world. Apart from 70 tourists getting killed in Egypt about six months before I arrived.
Will have to blog about what happened in Sydney over the weekend - those 'race riots' - in another post, don't want to kill this nice travel buzz I am having at the moment.
Pauly
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