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The Beauty of Solitude at Sunrise

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First published on the Relais & Châteaux Africa blog. I want to tell you about the sunrise, because you weren’t there. You were 5000 kilometres away and I was alone...

October 30, 2017
Islands, Photography, Travel
I love the moments on a game drive when someone first catches a glimpse of an animal and freaks out and can’t contain their excitement, but they know they have to keep quiet and so they flap their hands around wildly trying to cope with the overwhelming urge to shout and dance (it’s not just me, I’ve seen you do it too). I love it when people are so taken by the sight before them that they forget themselves for a moment and go full goofy or freeze, holding their hands over their mouths in disbelief, unable to take their eyes off the animal, unable to move, unable to think or talk or raise a finger. I love how the animals go about their preening and tumbling and loving and stalking as though they weren’t the most magical thing we’d just seen. I love it all and I feel it now looking through these photographs, remembering the looks on faces as we tracked these lionesses and their cubs across the Okavango. This is a love that does not fade, only grows the more I experience it. It’s born from the joy felt by witnessing another’s joy, the joy of people enjoying nature and acknowledging how so damn cool and charming it is, in the simplest of ways. A lick, a tail flick, a yelp, a yawn. #relaischateaux #relaischateauxafrica #greatplainsconservation #botswana
Sun salutations.
Saving the survivors. Little Mopane was first brought into the care of HESC in December 2017, after being found wandering around on his own in the Kruger National Park, near Phalaborwa, at an estimated three to four weeks old. He was malnourished, dehydrated and suffering from an infection and injury. In the care of HESC, with the excellent work of a vet, carers and curators, and Lammie the sheep, in the last year, he has become a strong and healthy young elephant bull, and in the future will hopefully be introduced into the Jabulani herd. Discover more: @hesc_endangeredspeciescentre @campjabulani #relaischateauxafrica #relaischateaux #findtheothers

"Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry."

Jack Kerouac

Do You Ride? – A Horse Safari in Kenya

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First published in the Relais & Châteaux Africa blog > Do you ride? People are always asking that. It’s not good enough that we’ve bravely mounted bicycles and game...

August 22, 2018
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Africa, Animals, Travel

The Art of Embracing Life – and the Sea

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Header image: 20 Degres Sud, Mauritius. First published on the Relais & Châteaux Africa blog. The Indian Ocean… it sinks beneath your skin and starts to alter the very...

August 11, 2018
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Islands, Relais & Châteaux, Travel

The Little Engine That Couldn’t

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As published in the Sunday Times’ Travel 29 July 2018 – read it here.  

August 5, 2018
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Published, Travel

The Infinite Intrigue of Bushman Rock Art

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Once a year, do something you’ve never done before, people will tell you. Just as good, though, is doing something you’ve done many times, but with people who haven’t....

July 19, 2018
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Africa, Mountain Creatures, Relais & Châteaux, Travel

The Sweetness of the Solo Safari

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It wasn’t merely that the animals were all out, on this early morning in the Nambiti wilderness. Not simply that we didn’t have to search too hard to find...

July 4, 2018
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Africa, Travel

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