by Sarah Duff | Oct 10, 2017 | Europe, Montenegro
After a year of studying in London (with not much adventurous travel) I was in need of a break. I wanted to go somewhere in Europe which would offer a bit of autumn sunshine, a bit of ocean swimming, mountains, some good food, no Internet connection and a lot of...
by Sarah Duff | Mar 30, 2016 | Africa, Zimbabwe
Travelling to the bush at the tail end of rainy season means you really have to get into birds if you aren’t already. In the dry season in Hwange National Park, many thousands of elephants in huge herds – just part of a population of 75 000 – can be seen, along with...
by Sarah Duff | Mar 24, 2016 | Travel philosophy
In the space of just over a hundred years, we’ve gone from the world’s first commercial flight (with just one paying passenger on a 40-kilometre route in Florida which took 23 minutes) to the dawn of space tourism. On average, eight million people fly somewhere every...
by Sarah Duff | Mar 18, 2016 | Africa, Botswana, Wildlife, Zimbabwe
A trip through national parks and wilderness areas of northern Botswana in rainy season: gliding through a channel of the Okavango Delta in a mokoro; flying above the Delta in a small helicopter above rivers and islets, water lily-studded lagoons and marshes full of...
by Sarah Duff | Mar 18, 2016 | Africa, Botswana, Wildlife, Zimbabwe
Everything seemed to be in slow motion as we glided through the channel in a fibreglass mokoro like a knife through runny honey. The water lily-dotted water was as silvery, calm and flat as a mirror, reflecting a big sky full of rain clouds. Serenity reigned, and the...
