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Destination Cape Town, 80 Years Later
It’s always a strange feeling, filling the last few days before a long trip, a kind of void which gets filled with things that don’t really need to be done, and some that definitely do. A kind of hiatus where there’s a heap of tasks which wait to be done but can’t yet be tackled. We fly out on July 15th; friends and family are all but seen, places visited, jobs completed, boxes ticked. It will be on us like an avalanche soon, but for now, a timeless vacuum regularly taps our shoulder with a bony hand. There’s been a bit of a medical issue, not, as it turns out,…
- Africa, Belize, Central America, Independent travel, Italy, Jamaica, Mexico, North America, Panama, Photography, Travel Blog, Wildlife
That Was 2022
When we retired at the end of 2019, full of wide eyed enthusiasm about seeing the world and feeling like the entire world was our oyster, we had a vision of what a year would look like. This was of course before we had any inkling that something very nasty was about to escape from China and have something of an impact on those plans. Resourceful as we were in ‘20 and ‘21 (we travelled as much as we could and more than most), 2022 has probably been the first year which really did match the dreams we had at the start. As a year which started in Costa Rica…