Three African countries a year was our mantra, when we moved to SA, however, it has been a disappointment that this is only our fourth, in four years! I’ve always been intrigued by Dar es Salaam, the capital of Tanzania. In my childhood I had a friend who had lived there, which made it very exotic. Tanganika, as this country was called, got its independence in 1961, and in 1964 it joined forces with Zanzibar, a separate country, to form Tanzania. We will spe...

Over 100 islands make up the collective Seychelles. Only 10 of these are inhabited, from the very small, exclusive North Island, where Kate and William honeymooned, to Mahe, the main island. They have nearly 100,000 residents, swelled by up to 10000 tourists, per week. iIt’s on the up after a period in the doldrums. BA have started flights after 14 years, Air France will soon, so the reliance upon Middle East airlines will be reduced. When I first visited, in t...

We are now on the downhill leg. A day to savour as we have a lie in, I get my laptop fixed, we find an elusive thali set and breakfast with a bunch of cricketing mercenaries! While it’s a team game, the IPL teams are drafted, not one lives in the city they reside in for six weeks, get paid a large sum and get treated like kings, expected to deliver. We are flying from Hyderabad to Mumbai to pick up our flight to The Seychelles. We’ve booked an airside hotel...

What could go wrong? Nothing, absolutely nada! I’ll start at the end, it was the quintessential T20 game, it had everything, finishing with a victory from the last ball! Back to the beginning... A leisurely start, no stupid o’clock alarm call for guide or taxi, lying in bed, admiring the ceiling of our beautiful room, before an al fresco breakfast, listening to an old gentleman playing two recorders at the same time, it sounds like he’s in need of a snake....

The IPL leg! Typically us, instead of just going home we bolt on another leg. Imagine going a thousand miles for a couple of football games!? It’s an early start, leaving our safe haven for, who knows what! Needless to say Kathmandu air traffic control is still on point, and falling over, a 40 minute hold on the tarmac becomes 45 minutes more, but, engines started earlier. This is a flight which bridges a strange time zone, we are flying back in time by 15 minu...