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Drilling stopped in Virunga National Park but for how long?
As I prepared to board a flight to East Africa yesterday news that oil exploration within Africa’s oldest national park had been suspended broke. The environmental charity WWF was claiming this as its own hard-fought victory. It follows endless campaigning and celebrity endorsement which the NGO believes helped to safeguard the Democratic Republic of Congo’s […]
Posted in: My African Adventure
Adam’s Peak
May 17, 2014
Fitness is something I have come to late in my life. It’s not because I’m lazy, it’s because up until now I haven’t found anything I particularly enjoyed doing to keep up the momentum of regular practise. For the last 18-months I have been practising Bikram yoga four times a week. I am dedicated and […]
Posted in: Asia
Bluff Charged By An Elephant
May 16, 2014
There aren’t many times in my life when I can say that my heart rate has speeded up from an equal dose of fear and excitement. But my jeep safari to Kaudulla National Park provided just that. The incident in question happened at the end of the day. The rain had come down hard in […]
Posted in: Asia
Whale Watching – Day 4
May 7, 2014
Even though I present an early morning breakfast show every weekend when that alarm goes off at O’F@ck-o-clock it never gets any easier. But today when the alarm sounded at 0450 I leapt out of bed excited by the prospect that I might see some whales. The walk down to the boat was beautiful. The […]
Posted in: Asia
The Bay of Bengal – Uppuveli – Day 3
May 7, 2014
I flung open the wooden shutters on my room and the sight of the ocean and the sunlight hit me hard. Squinting in the morning rays I rubbed the sleep out of my tired eyes and pulled on a pair of shorts. The sea looked choppy and my heart sank a little as the idea […]
Posted in: Asia
The Cultural Triangle – Anuradhapura – Day 2
May 7, 2014
Anuradhapura is one of three points of an imaginary triangle that lies in three Sinhalese capitals and where I stayed over night. The other places are Kandy in the south and Polonnaruwa in the east. The sun broke through the curtains of my room early and I awoke to sit in the garden of my […]
Posted in: Asia
Sri Lanka
May 4, 2014
I’m back in Asia. This time in Sri Lanka. The Brits were first chased away during the independence of 1948 but have since return in throngs every year to soak up the heritage, beaches, national parks, tea plantations and to explore the ancient ruins and giant Buddhas sprawled around the island. The country is not […]
Posted in: Asia
Mind your language
March 15, 2014
It’s been more than two weeks since i got back from my travels in India and thrown into a non stop breaking news. All the headlines Pistorius, Ukraine and the missing Malaysian airplane just seem to keep giving. Four hours of live news coverage is taxing and you really do have to be on the […]
Posted in: India
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