As the saying goes, it takes a village to raise a child. And our village, that of Mushekwa, alongside us on the banks of the Zambezi, has many children. Even the children help in raising children. Young boys that reach only to my hips walk with a child propped upon…
“Breakfast remains the cornerstone of every trip,” wrote Bill Prince, Deputy Editor of British GQ Magazine, in a recent piece, Breakfast like James Bond, for Relais & Châteaux‘s magazine, Instants. “Now, wherever I am in the world, and wherever I’m staying I’ve become a stickler about how I start day. And for me,…
Whoever said that long distance relationships don’t work never fell in love with the African skimmers of the Zambezi River. Perhaps it’s easier with birds, though… The skimmers arrive around the month of July, in the dry season, when little sandbanks peak out of the great river and call the migrants home. Here…
In our individual lifetimes we will witness all kinds of sunsets. The window-seat sunset on the plane. The first kiss sunset. The sunset glimpsed from the balcony of your first home. The new camera sunset. The “I will get through this” sunset. The sunset seen through tears, happy or sad. The…
