This week has been a big one. So I will signify it with some photos as a placeholder. Settling in. My beautiful sister sent us ‘welcome’ flowers amongst other things! Flynn spent about two hours trying to coax two 14 yr old dogs (one blind and deaf) to learn a new dog door system FlynnContinueContinue reading “A week worth noting”
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Planes, shuttles and a ferry.
Second leg: Last time I had this short a time between connecting flights that required going throughUS customs, we missed the flight. Thiankfully, this was not the case today. Customs isolated both my bags but not for anything serious and I got through quite quickly- giving me time to get a strong iced coffee toContinueContinue reading “Planes, shuttles and a ferry.”
Oh What a Day
Embarkation day. At about 4 am, I registered that the nightclub music has ceased. It was a very quiet start to our day… just pattering and re-packing our suitcases before we went downstairs to check out. Three of us caught a maxi Uber with all the luggage while everyone else trammed to the overseas terminal.ContinueContinue reading “Oh What a Day”
In which we are Sydney tourists and we stay overtop a night club- on a Saturday night…
Our Murray’s bus up to Sydney this morning was uneventful. I hadn’t slept well the night before so I attempted to snooze, but without a pillow buffer, the window drilled a relentless and uncomfortable staccato against my temple. We arrived to a very humid Sydney central station Most of us had never used the lightContinueContinue reading “In which we are Sydney tourists and we stay overtop a night club- on a Saturday night…”
Diploma of Photography and Photo Imaging – homework!
It is thrilling, yet quite overwhelmed to be back at the books again. But this time, it is studying something I used to be passionate about. My first lecture was last week. The initial course takes us through the basics of our camera and how it works. And the internal learning I have access toContinueContinue reading “Diploma of Photography and Photo Imaging – homework!”
The $600 phone call and the security checks
We woke up to a breakfast of crepes, eggs, sausages, toast and chai. Well, I thought it was chai, and I raved about it to our hilarious chef, David. When I opened the thermos however, it was just hot water with milk and tea-making accompaniments beside it.John our driver noticed; he called David back andContinueContinue reading “The $600 phone call and the security checks”
The gates are opened
We woke early after a night where the rain bucketed down for hours. After packing up, I walked over to pay for our night, the man hesitated over the price so I spoke up ‘7000 like you said in the email, yes?’ ‘Ah, yes’ he agreed. I counted out 7000 K/sh and said thank youContinueContinue reading “The gates are opened”
Meat, meat, meat and Fortress RVA
It was a quiet, busy morning of packing and cleaning up after ourselves. John our driver for the next four days arrived early and is just lovely.We headed straight out towards the Marula Studios where old thongs are recycled into sculptures.As we drove towards the suburb of Karen, I was shocked at how run downContinueContinue reading “Meat, meat, meat and Fortress RVA”
A Real Adventure
Oh boy- what a morning…..It took me a full two hours to even begin to think ‘at least it was blog worthy!’Every single one of my senses is exhausted and I experienced a range of emotions in a period of 3 hours.We woke at about 3 am because of jet lag. Flynn, the 13 yearContinueContinue reading “A Real Adventure”
Our first taste of Nairobi
Disclaimer- I am too jet lagged to do more than recount what happened today. More insights as that wears off :)The second leg of our flight was relatively shorter (5 hours), used a smaller plane, only one argument went down and the lamb pilau blew my mind! It was a thrill to see the landContinueContinue reading “Our first taste of Nairobi”
Dory the Explorer 