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Kenya: Better than London Zoo

Lake Nakuru National Park, Kenya

Having found myself in Nairobi, Kenya over a weekend with very little to do I looked into some tourism options. I was recommended Lake Nakuru national park, a smallish national park with a vast array of wildlife, but no elephants. I was picked up from my hotel at 7am, [...]

Fizzy Ale?

Whilst on an eight day tour of New Zealand’s South Island, one of the first activities planned was the journey from Christchurch, on the east coast to a town called Greymouth on the west coast. This involved an amazingly scenic ride through the ‘Southern Alps’ on a fairly rickety train. The views were [...]

Total Hotel Review: IBIS in Central Amsterdam

Corridor from lift towards my room

This is just a quick one, just wanted to point out the lunacy that is the IBIS, billed as being near Amsterdam Central station. I needed a place to stay for one evening in Amsterdam in order to make a connecting flight to South America. I was [...]

Cactus if ya Can...

´About twenty percent of people throw up after drinking the medicine´ the Shaman told us as we sat in the garden of a Peruvian mountain house, having slugged the contents from our stainless steel cups. A New Zealander named Rob, two young Americans Tim and [...]

Review: Limbe Zoo, Cameroon

Through a set of random and completely and utterly uninteresting events I ended up in Douala, the largest city in Cameroon with a spare day before my flight home in the evening. So rather than waste the opportunity by spending a day on the internet in the hotel (or indeed [...]