Category Transportation
JEEP – MY TENTH TRANSPORTATION THEMED BLOG FOR THE APRIL A-Z CHALLENGE
This was another special holiday as Mrs Wilbur and I visited South Africa in 2003. The main feature of our trip was a safari in Kruger National Park. We stayed at a rustic lodge called Akeru and no sooner had we arrived than we were off in search of the Big Five. We met Ryan […]
INTER-RAIL – MY NINTH TRANSPORTATION THEMED BLOG FOR THE APRIL A-Z CHALLENGE
Island hopping was high on the list for the blogging treatment having visited Spetses, Hydra, Aegina, Poros, Santorini, Rhodes, Symi and more, but how could I possibly not plump for inter-rail? My 1987 experience gained from my three weeks of training around Europe has been hugely influential in my life, instilling an adventure gene that […]
HELICOPTER – MY EIGHTH TRANSPORTATION THEMED BLOG FOR THE APRIL A-Z CHALLENGE
I have been a passenger on a helicopter four times, for a grand total of twenty-eight minutes! In the days that I was an international sales manager, I managed some clients and suppliers based in Monaco. Our travel policy was very much budget flights in those days, but amazingly we managed to persuade our travel […]
GOLF BUGGY – MY SEVENTH TRANSPORTATION THEMED BLOG FOR THE APRIL A-Z CHALLENGE
Although I have flown a glider (well I took the controls for five whole minutes!), perhaps strangely I have chosen a golf buggy for my G themed transportation. On the basis that I am absolutely hopeless at golf (sorry dad, I did try!), this has nothing at all to do with my presence on a […]
FOXTROT SUBMARINE – MY SIXTH TRANSPORTATION THEMED BLOG FOR THE APRIL A-Z CHALLENGE
In 2013 I visited Kaliningrad, the Russian enclave on the Baltic Sea sandwiched between Poland & Lithuania. As part of the open air maritime museum, there was the opportunity to scramble inside a decommissioned Foxtrot submarine. This was a cramped experience up there with the Chu Chi Tunnels in Vietnam and one of the few […]
ELEPHANT – MY FIFTH TRANSPORTATION THEMED BLOG FOR THE APRIL A-Z CHALLENGE
I had ridden on the back of an elephant in India before but that had been sat on a howdah for just a few metres up to the Amber Palace. This was nothing compared to my visit to Elephant Village just outside Luang Prabang in Laos. Normal Monday morning – get up at six tired […]
DONKEY – MY FOURTH TRANSPORTATION THEMED BLOG FOR THE APRIL A-Z CHALLENGE
In 1996 I visited Egypt at Easter. I went with the brilliant people that are Explore as a singleton. The whole trip was brilliant – Cairo, Pyramids, temples, two night small boat trip (sleeping on deck) down the Nile etc. We had two three a.m. starts – one to go to unbelievable Abu Simbel and […]
CABLE CAR – MY THIRD TRANSPORTATION THEMED BLOG FOR THE APRIL A-Z CHALLENGE
I nearly plumped for my only ever camel ride in Egypt, but instead decided to recount my journey on The Téléphérique (proudly delivered in 1965 just like me!), a precipitous cable car ride starting at the bay of Jounieh, a city 16KM outside Beirut in Lebanon. It was the year of my marriage in 2000 and against […]
BOAT – MY SECOND TRANSPORTATION THEMED BLOG FOR THE APRIL A-Z CHALLENGE
More specifically a Brittany Ferries ship in 1980 from Southampton to Cherbourg for my first ever trip abroad, a school exchange from Ottery St Mary in Devon to its twin town of Pont-l’Évêque in Normandie, France. I was fifteen at the time and remember very little about the trip apart from six things: The outward ferry journey was […]
Aeroplane – My First Transportation Themed Blog For The April A-Z Challenge
A Monarch Boeing 737 took me on my first ever flight as a nineteen year-old. Three excited friends and I were off from Devon for two weeks of fun & sun in Benidorm on a ‘secret surprise’ budget package holiday (the secret was that we would not know which hotel we were staying in until […]
