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Post by tzarine on Oct 19, 2018 1:33:15 GMT 2
off to san francico tomorrow
before heading to hong kong
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Post by Scrubb on Oct 21, 2018 6:00:20 GMT 2
It's not until next March, but we are going on a diving trip to Socorro Island, off the coast of Mexico. We have been putting off booking anything for months due to renovations/my feet/my parents, and it feels wonderful to have something definite in the works again.
And it's inspiring me to book something else for January, too. Where in sub-Saharan Africa is good to visit in January?
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Post by slowcoach on Oct 22, 2018 8:51:03 GMT 2
The Namib, the days are long, and being low season there are/were big discounts on vehicle hire and accommodation. Of course it will be hot, and away from the desert humid but it is the time of the year when the wildlife is best seen in the open countryside. In winter it disperses into the wild and your best option is a park or reserve e.g. Etosha. In summer it has to come to water and that means large concentrations in the handful of places that still have water.
If the rains have come, the flowers should be starting to bloom.
I have visited during most seasons and I think summer is the best, I suspect that it is better to go in late January/start February, which is why we did.
Avoid the Christmas Holiday season like the plague. I am not sure exactly when the school holidays end, but they may wipe out the first week or maybe two of January.
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Post by Scrubb on Oct 24, 2018 4:14:02 GMT 2
Thanks, slow. We've wanted to go to Namibia for a long time.
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Post by slowcoach on Oct 24, 2018 6:03:39 GMT 2
FWIW I have read that bird watching is best during the rains i.e. summer but I think for January they would still be in the east, so that would be the Kalahari or Caprivi Strip.
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Post by welle on Nov 30, 2018 20:19:12 GMT 2
I'll be headed to lovely Florida towards the end of the month. Looking forward to it!
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Post by shrjeff on Dec 1, 2018 4:56:16 GMT 2
off to seattle in 4 days and then down to the s.f. bay area...
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Post by OnlyMark on Dec 2, 2018 15:03:07 GMT 2
Where am I off to next? Probably hospital if I keep driving like this. Me on the way back from a little 2000km jaunt to the north (best skip to 2:30) -
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Post by shrjeff on Dec 2, 2018 16:32:25 GMT 2
scary, mark...
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Post by sophie on Dec 2, 2018 18:21:26 GMT 2
Eek!
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Post by Baz Faz on Dec 4, 2018 17:43:47 GMT 2
On Thursday I am going to Bath. I am attending a lecture on 16th century Christmas (so work related though Dyrham Park where we work is 17th century; probably little difference). I'll also be able to look round the Bath Christmas market.
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Post by shrjeff on Dec 4, 2018 20:22:06 GMT 2
finishing packing - tomorrow we fly  |
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Post by Baz Faz on Dec 4, 2018 20:39:03 GMT 2
7 kilos each ^^^ Jeff?
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Post by shrjeff on Dec 5, 2018 5:16:39 GMT 2
in your dreams, baz hell, we got more than that in fresh pitas we're taking so the merkins can find out how pita should be (not stale)... plus a couple of bottles of georgian wine made traditionally in kvevri... |
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Post by Baz Faz on Dec 5, 2018 19:02:02 GMT 2
in your dreams, baz hell, we got more than that in fresh pitas we're taking so the merkins can find out how pita should be (not stale)... plus a couple of bottles of georgian wine made traditionally in kvevri... Jeff, those sound great reason to be overweight. |
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Post by Baz Faz on Dec 24, 2018 11:18:44 GMT 2
Tomorrow we go to Bath for Christmas with our son. We spend the night in Bath then return to Chipping Sodbury via Dyrham Park where we are working on Boxing Day.
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Post by shrjeff on Dec 24, 2018 16:07:00 GMT 2
today we take the Amtrak train to Berkeley... then fly home the end of the week...
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Post by Voy on Dec 24, 2018 16:18:31 GMT 2
Tonight to one set of cousins about an hour away, then on Christmas day onto Orlando and another set of cousins - home on Boxing Day when I will declare myself a holiday to do nothing but read new books and gaze at the tree .
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Post by shrjeff on Dec 30, 2018 4:50:12 GMT 2
at SFO to start going home...
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Post by shrjeff on Jan 1, 2019 10:18:53 GMT 2
home in time for the new year!
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Post by shrjeff on Jan 7, 2019 13:31:24 GMT 2
just made reservations for both flights and hotel: baku, azerbaijan, here we come (in May)... don't remember anybody from tt in baku  |
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Post by Voy on Jan 7, 2019 17:09:21 GMT 2
Have you read Fitzroy MacLean's "Eastern Approaches"? he goes thru there at the height of the Stalinist trials - the whole book is great reading .
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Post by sophie on Jan 25, 2019 18:16:06 GMT 2
Sunday I am off for a week in NYC!! Finally I am excited about this. A bit nervous as this will be my first flight since my DVT 15 months ago, but the doc assured me if I walk a lot and take baby aspirin and drink a lot water I should be fine. Yippeee!!
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Post by wikki on Jan 27, 2019 18:40:03 GMT 2
Have a good trip sophie!
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Post by OnlyMark on Jan 28, 2019 14:33:43 GMT 2
I've started to do the final organisation and packing tomorrow for three weeks in Colombia, leaving early Wednesday morning.
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Post by shrjeff on Jan 28, 2019 15:42:25 GMT 2
have a great trip, sophie... mark, isn't colombia where your kids were born? a roots trip for them?
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Post by OnlyMark on Jan 28, 2019 16:24:30 GMT 2
Yes it is, but no it's not. They're not coming. It's the two of us, with some friends who we'll meet up with.
They were all very young and none of them have expressed an interest in going back, even for a visit. The girls remember virtually nothing of it and my lad, only a little.
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Post by Baz Faz on Jan 28, 2019 19:55:47 GMT 2
Where in Colombia are you going?
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Post by OnlyMark on Jan 28, 2019 20:39:58 GMT 2
A few places. Bogota, Cali, Cartegena, Santa Marta, Tatacoa to name some.
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Post by Baz Faz on Jan 31, 2019 11:35:36 GMT 2
On Monday we are going to Granada for a couple of days.
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