The last out of six blog posts covering my May/June trip to Africa. This one also includes parts of both African countries I visited, in one blog post. The story continues in Maun, Botswana, where I am changing planes after I returned on a charter flight from the Okavango Delta, …
The second-to-last blog post regarding my trip to Africa, continuing in Maun, Botswana where I spent the night before heading into the Okavango Delta in north-western Botswana. Sunday, June 3rd After breakfast, the hotel in Maun still had no information on my flight times. As I would be flying out …
The fourth blog post regarding my trip to Africa, and the first one about the last half of the trip, which took place in Botswana. The blog post starts in Namibia still, waking up in the Ngepi Camp on the banks of the Okavango River, in Namibia’s Caprivi Strip. Wednesday, …
The third of the blog posts from my trip to Namibia/Botswana. The second blog post ended with the last evening at the Brandberg White Lady Lodge in Namibia’s Damaraland, now continuing north to the Etosha National Park, and later the Caprivi Strip. Saturday, MAY 26th I checked out of the …
This is the second blog post regarding my trip to Namibia and Botswana in May/June, picking up where I left off in the first blog post, in Solitaire, near the Namib-Naukluft National Park and the Sossusvlei dunes. Tuesday, MAY 22nd Got up early, and got ready to have breakfast at …
Africa was very high on the to-do list, as I had not yet visited the continent at all. Additionally, I had never really done anything that I would label as “safari”. Typical safari trips can get crazy expensive, particularly when traveling with several people (ie. as a family). I figured …
One of my main goals for my travels this year is exploring more of Eastern Europe, a region that I haven’t visited enough. Eastern Europe has a large cultural wealth and a tremendous amount of history. It’s very distinct from Western and Central Europe. There’s plenty of direct flights from …
I have only been to Innsbruck’s Airport as part of flight training, but not the city. Given that it’s a relatively short train ride across the border, and the city’s size is perfect for a weekend getaway, it was certainly up there on the to-do list. Saturday Got on the …
I have never been to Bratislava, or even Vienna for that matter. Why do I mention Vienna? A few months ago I found cheap flights to Vienna, however, I only had two days off from work. Bratislava is about 80 km/50 miles east of Vienna, and its own airport isn’t …
I’ve flown through the airport of Frankfurt over 20 times by now, but never once left the airport. So it was overdue that I changed that and visited the city itself. Ironically, train tickets are much cheaper than flights between Zurich and Frankfurt, because the Lufthansa Group has a monopoly …
