Category April A-Z Challenge
A-Z April Challenge (Cities Visited) – G is for Guangzhou
Today’s city relates to a visit I made nearly thirty-years ago. The focus of this post is the journey there from Hong Kong, a couple of pretty unusual hotel experiences and topically given the current horrid situation, a very unusual restaurant. A Slow Boat to China The year was 1991, just two years since the […]
A-Z April Challenge (Cities Visited) – F for Frankfurt
I actually intended to blog about the Moroccan city of Fes, but found that I have virtually no digital photographs. A great shame as Fes is one of my favourite cities ever visited. I visited the German city of Frankfurt on a business trip and as I had a few hours to kill, decided to […]
A-Z April Challenge (Cities Visited) – E for Edinburgh
Edinburgh is a wonderful compact city with loads to do. There are many highlights of the Scottish capital which are very well known. Edinburgh Castle, Holyrood Palace (the Queen’s Edinburgh residence), the Scottish Parliament, the Royal Mile and the many museums and galleries are all great, even though I could personally do without the bagpipers […]
A-Z April Challenge (Cities Visited) – D for Damascus
The capital was to be the last port of call on our magical Syrian tour in 2009. Damascus vies with Aleppo as being the oldest continually inhabited city in the world, both having a history of over 6,000 years. Like its Northern neighbour (see my entry for A), Damascus is stuffed with highlights. Umayyad Mosque […]
A-Z April Challenge (Cities Visited) – C For Cape Town
We loved Cape Town when we visited in 2003 as part of a fifteen day trip to South Africa. We stayed for four nights either side of journeys along the Wine Route & around the Western Cape, which you can also read about on my blog. On our first two nights we stayed centrally. Our […]
A-Z April Challenge (Cities Visited) – B For Bilbao
Continuing the challenge with day 2, the Basque city of Bilbao. Bilbao Situated in the North of Spain close to the border with France, Bilbao is like no other Spanish city I had ever visited. The language is totally different for a start and the people definitely see themselves as Basque first and Spanish second. […]
A-Z April Challenge (Cities Visited) – A For Aleppo
As many of you may know, Aleppo is my favourite city I have ever visited. We all know the fate that befell this metropolis inhabited for the past 6,000 years that is situated on the ancient Silk Road. I won’t dwell on the horrendous occurrences of the last 9 years though, but will show things […]
A-Z April Challenge
With April 2018 now a memory it is time to reflect on my 3rd A-Z Challenge. Year One was Amsterdam to Zurich as cities visited was my theme, to be followed by transportation from Aeroplane to Zeppelin and finally this year’s theme – sights I had seen on my travels. 26 blog posts in 30 […]
A-Z April Challenge – Zebras of Africa
In November 2003 Mrs Wilbur and I ventured on to date our only ever safari. Our destination was the Akeru Lodge inside the Kruger National Park in South Africa. We saw plenty of lions, elephants, rhino, giraffes, antelopes & apes, but amongst our favourite animal sightings were the horses in striped pyjamas. We even took […]
A-Z April Challenge – Yad Vashem
There is something haunting about visiting somewhere connected to the Holocaust. I am yet to visit an ex concentration camp and the closest that I have come are museums in Warsaw and Terezin in Czechia and the disturbing Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, as well as the subject of my post. Yad Vashem based in […]
