Nova Scotia and Niagara Falls (video clip)

NOVA SCOTIA AND NIAGARA FALLS A Canadian Conference with a difference, just a six and half hour flight with Air Canada from the UK brought me to the East Coast of Canada, Halifax the gateway to the Atlantic Provinces. It was September and a perfect time to visit. Halifax has the world’s second largest natural…

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Sri Lanka & The Maldives (video clip)

SRI LANKA, THE MALDIVES 2 Centres to double your pleasure – some cultural touring and then the ultimate chillax! Sri Lanka & The Maldives are a marriage made in heaven! by Gill Lindley After a very comfortable flight with Sri Lankan Air from Heathrow I landed in Colombo. From the air the view is very…

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Kerala – a cultural paradise! (video clip)

KERALA A CULTURAL PARADISE Visiting Kerala in South India is like visiting an India of order and calm, quite unlike the noisy confusion of Bombay and Delhi! Swaying palm trees, wide, white expansive beaches – without traders or high rise hotels – Kerala is a lush landscape of tea plantations, coconut palms and spices. In…

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Bee-U-Tee-ful Botswana! (video clip)

BEE-U-TEE-FUL BOTSWANA I couldn’t believe that I was in the midst of the Kalahari Desert! It was green, full of marshes, watery channels and huge expanses of flooded plains. Of course this was the Okavango Delta – an area of desert (graded by the lack of rain), which is flooded by rivers that flow from…

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