When you live in one of the world's most popular tourist destinations, going on holiday doesn't have quite the same connotation. Apart from trips back to Europe, and the occasional tour around the Western Cape, this is our first holiday for some time. The fact we had three whales 200m off the shore in front of us, while watching a beautiful sunset last night explains the predicament! So, why this itinerary? We have always wanted to go to Bhutan. The travel God...

Our second trip is to Rwanda, a country that not so long ago was scene to one of the continents worst genocides, over one million killed in 6 weeks of pre meditated carnage, which is now one of Africa's more stable nations with a progressive President working for the state of the nation and not his pocket, quite a rarity! We are here to visit the Silverback gorillas, a long hoped for experience which is my 60th birthday gift from Angelka. A real tick in the box! ...

As we had to pass through JHB to get home from Rwanda, we thought we'd extend the trip to take in another stop. JHB was wet, grey and cold and felt like Manchester! Reunion Island sits in the Indian Ocean, a population of 800,000, a French protectorate, a member of the EU and with €uros as its currency. It's 150 miles from Mauritiius, which is most SAfricans holiday home destination. Having visited Martinique, St Barts, I'm rather partial to a little French i...

There were many reasons for our move to South Africa, one,in particular was to put ourselves in a position to easily discover the one continent our extensive travels have neglected. There are 54 countries in Africa and I've only been to 6! While South Africa is a good 7 hour flight to Morocco, it's a lot closer to most countries, than the UK. The idea is to try and go to 3 new countries each year so that after 5 years we have knocked off 15, taking us to nearly ...

Some 10 years after thinking to emigrate,we have finally done it! It doesn't seem strange or "wrong", just the right thing to do. Cape Town, and Camps Bay in particular, has always been favourite. My first trip was in the early 80's, having driven overnight from Jo'burg, arriving in the Garden after the straight roads of the desert, descending to the sea and thinking that this is the life, which for a mid 20 year old, it was!!! I've been many times since and An...