It wasn’t meant to be like that. The plan was a birthday party, high in the Swiss Alps with lots of food, booze and good company. What eventuated was lots of food, booze and good company, plus the unplannable (even by the super efficient Susanne) – extraordinary good humour, dancing, singing, joke telling […]
Yes, I know this is out of sequence, but I’d initially decided not to write this blog entry at all. Then I changed my mind. **************************************************************************** goeuro.com says it’s 517km from Warsaw to Berlin. And for the ridiculously low rail fare of €29.90, it’s a bargain, much better than a ride to the […]
She said; “Would you like a fortune cookie from the Universe?” “Yes please.” And there it was; “The universe seems neither benign, nor hostile, merely indifferent.” Carl Sagan. Welcome to AfrikaBurn, South Africa’s annual four day festival of art, creative activities, music, dancing and other largely adult fun, deep in the heart […]
If the way things went at the start of this trip were a suggestion of what might happen, we should probably already be wondering what might be next. Travelling with the Pertons has always been something of a challenge and one of our journeys without some quite serious hiccough would no doubt feel incomplete. […]
So, Laura and Julian (and Zach and Amy) are home after an all-too-short fortnight in South Africa. It was touch and go – the Beast from the East has been holding the UK’s airports to ransom for the last week and we all had visions of overnight stays for the homeward travellers in Dubai. […]