Travel C.V. DrG

The world according to DrG

Mountain/Desert/Ocean/Jungle... which one are you?
Ocean - slightly 'bus man's holiday' but if there's water, I'll be in it or on it

What was your first great travel experience?
The Hardangervidda in Norway for a month, aged nine and waking up to the tent buried in snow in July

What has been your favourite journey?
Taking a 30 year old, 2wd Subaru and introducing Samantha to all my favourite places and friends in Kenya

What are your Top 5 places worldwide?
Tonga Beach, New Zealand; Laikipia plateau, Kenya; The Vestfold Hills, Antarctica; Freycinet Peninsula, Tasmania; Tarutao islands, Thailand

Recommend a special place to stay
The Hotel Maly Pivovar in Ceske Budijovice - a real gem of a hotel on the corner of the square.... our bathroom was as big as most hotel rooms!

Which three items do you always pack?
Camera, leatherman, kikoi

Which passport stamp are you proudest of?
Antarctica (unofficial) - just a pity it is now in my defunct English passport and not in the pink pamphlet!

Which passport stamp would you most like to have?
Argentina for Patagonia

Where or what is your guilty travel pleasure?
Bombay Sapphire - be it jungle gin i.e. warm and very little tonic, or with an appropriate loading of glacial ice and lime

Window or aisle?
Window....

Member experiences

• Thank you Mr Longstaff!

  
  
  I loathed French! It wasn’t the fact that I had to learn another language, as I already had some Latin under my belt. It was because I wanted to learn Spanish.

• An hour in the company of Kenyans

  
  
  An alternative to uploading photos (I only took nine this week), I contemplate four very different Kenyans I have spent time with and reflect on their different lives / views

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