Guy Mavor

Reflections on the trip, and on African travel in general

A visit to Nhoma

Hartmann's or Burchell's? Legs and bellies are not visible, but there is one more clue at least, or its absence In planning this trip...

Good of them to make the sun set through a dip in the mountain An hour north of EHRA , we stop at some (well, a vast numbers of) rock...

We are camping after Swakopmund, and stock up on braai stuff and cereal at a vast Spar before heading north along the coast, past Henties...

It is 60km to the coast from Sossusvlei as the crow flies, but I doubt it would make it. We go the long way round, nearly 400km, to...

The view when you’re sitting down because your legs have turned to jelly is not bad either You have to do this , my dad said a few months...

There is so much life in this desert

23 years after my last visit, I can close my eyes and still picture the country’s exquisite golden light as it falls on dry grassland

From my classroom, I can see the house where Jane Austen lived out the last weeks of her life, and the people looking at it. At lunch, I...

A Visit to Real Madrid There is more than one trophy room at Real Madrid. A €35 Stadium Tour (€28 Concessions and Groups) will take you...

Noirmoutier Eight years. We work it out in the queue for the tunnel. As a French teacher, immersed in French websites, politics,...

There is no better place in the valley to arrive at hungry than Flatdogs (these are crocodiles FYI) Camp. I arrive after 3, but the à la...

I first saw a wild elephant 28 years ago, and was struck, more than anything, by its serenity. It was an old male, and was happy to stand...

June 2017 and I am teaching in Blantyre, in magical Malawi (see separate posts), for the term. A Friday off for Eid-al-Fitr, and Monday...

"Africa doesn't need saving!" This was a line I heard in response to a brief explanations of my plans for this website. It is a fair...

Across the North I leave Botswana as smoothly as I arrived, fortified by coffee and a deep sense of contentment. Yes, I am dog-tired, and...

(But first, 20 hours in Botswana!) Limpopo. I have loved the word since reading Kipling's Just So Stories as a boy. The Elephant's Child,...

I am not one for interfering with nature. In fact, I am in Namibia with friends in order to experience nature at its least...

Today brought home to me that it really is time to begin publishing some of the material I have gathered for this website. But first, the...