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Wednesday 31st July. Bogota, Colombia.

A little history. The Spanish landed in South America around 1500 and by the mid 1550’s had colonised much of the territory known as New Grenada. Santa Fe de Bogota was it’s capital. Enter Simon Bolivar, of aristocratic Venezuelan origin. He had returned from Spain and with the help of…

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Monday 29th July. Hotel Casa Deco. Bogota.

A groggy start to the day. Arriving at the hotel last night at 7pm, following a 7am start from Wineham, a two hour flight from Gatwick to Madrid and then a 11hour flight to Bogota. Our hotel room is above a busy old town, street. So this morning we were…

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Dennis 30/07/2024 06/08/2024The Trip Plan 2

Travel plans confirmed. 1 July 2024. From Wineham West Sussex.

Wimbledon has commenced and semi-finalists are becoming known in the Euro 24 football competition. England have staggered through with a singular scarcity of goals. This weekend there are some important games in the Rugby Union international calendar. New Zealand All Blacks playing England in Dunedin. South Africa are playing Ireland…

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Dennis 02/07/2024 03/07/2024The Trip Plan 4

Whistler, Canada. Sunday 26th May.

I guess you could say the commencement of the final stage of this world journey, is under way. The last six months have flown. Apart from a couple of brief journeys south of Rotorua, our days have been spent around the house. Jen in the garden and me, mmm, doing…

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Dennis 29/05/2024 20/06/2024The Trip Plan 2

Merry Christmas to all, family and friends.

Wherever you are, continuing with your travels or taking a break. With family or friends, or home alone, like us, enjoy the festive season and we hope you will look ahead to the New Year, for what it could bring, with eager anticipation. Brother Ash drove three hours to Auckland…

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Dennis 24/12/2023 25/12/2023The Trip Plan 2

Friday 17th November. Wineham. West Sussex.

We can now report that the Santa Clara has berthed at Rotterdam. Arriving on the 13th due to both a late departure from Durban and storms in the north Atlantic. Poki is now on Terra Firma. We’re off to Holland We were probably a little over optimistic to expect the…

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Dennis 18/11/2023 20/11/2023The Trip Plan 3

Thursday 19th October. Arundel, Sussex.

While there is not much happening in our immediate world, there have been massive developments elsewhere. Firstly and vitally, we have a new government in New Zealand, not Aoteora. The previous administration were trying to foist on us inhabitants, without a moments consultation, a new name. The arrogance. There were…

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Monday 25th September. Wineham West Sussex. UK.

Today dawned fine and sunny. However for Jen, it didn’t matter. She was very unwell. Running a high temperature and uninterested in life. The cause, I suspect an infected Tic site that had become increasingly nasty looking and poisoning her system. On arriving home in the UK yesterday at 11.30am…

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Dennis 27/09/2023 24/12/2023The Trip Plan 4

Day 271. Tuesday 19th September. Kloof, Durban. S.A.

I wasn’t going to post any more blog entries as there is no benefit to anyone by just rabbiting on about nothing. However a few events have occurred which, to my mind anyway, are significant. One is that Karun at TuneServe has just confirmed that we have had a new…

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Day 268. Saturday 16th September 2023. Bluff Camp Ground, Durban. South Africa. End mileage 214723

Today has been a sitting around day. Fine till around 1pm when a drizzly rain started. We are not used to this and wet weather shows up deficiencies in our Caranex. Tomorrow is expected to be fine but cloudy and cooler, 19degC but best of all, it’s cooler at night.…

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