I’m Chris, video creator, writer, photographer, outdoor lover and overlanding & road trip fan. After many years in the digital marketing space, I decided that corporate life wasn’t for me, sold my business and adopted a remote working lifestyle. I haven’t regretted it for a single minute. My day job is a digital creator & marketing specialist, helping forward thinking brands, particularly in the real estate, hospitality & tourism space to get the best from their online presence, especially through video.
Drifting along the Chobe River in luxury houseboat is cruising like you won’t experience anywhere else. Forget the massive ocean-going liners of the Caribbean, the Med and Alaska, this is a far more intimate, and absolutely exclusive experience in one of the last unspoilt wilderness areas of the world. It’s a bit of a mission to reach, but so worth the effort, this...
Some underwater video from the crystal clear waters of the Maldives. This time it’s some GoPro footage taken while snorkelling at Kani Island, North of the Capital. Quite an experience getting up close an personal with the huge variety of colourful underwater inhabitants of these very special islands.[vc_video link=”;]
Road Tripping the Garden Route Late summer, great weather in the Western Cape, holiday season is over and the crowds have gone back to work or school, there is no better time for a bit of road tripping through the Garden Route. Our aim was to avoid tarred routes as far as possible, sticking to gravel whenever we could, on a meandering route from Cape Town, via...
The Maldives is made up of 26 atolls, which together contain thousands of islands, some fairly large and urban, like the capital city Malé, and others tiny and uninhabited. Located Southwest of India and Sri Lanka, the Maldives is a Muslim country which covers an area of over 90 000 square kilometres, and with an average height above sea level of only 1.5 metres...
This post is being published 6 months after the past one, work pressure and travel has got in the way, but better late than never as they say. From Lulea Sweden to Venice requires 2 flights, with a stopover in Stockholm and then a direct flight to Venice. We flew on Norwegian Air, I can highly recommend it, new planes, great staff and Scandinavian efficiency. Venice...
The flight from Cape Town via Dubai takes a bit longer than going direct, but the difference in cost between Emirates and SAA, British Airways & other national airlines is substantial. Thus began our Euro Trip 2014, which will take us from London to Lulea in Northern Sweden, via Stockholm, then on to Venice, Rome, Amalfi and Pompeii before flying back to London...
Apart from the roads within Etosha and then the long stretch from Khorixas to Henties Bay, much of the Northwards trip was on fair to good asphalt, from here it’s gravel all the way to the South African border at Vioolsdrift, apart that is, from the short stretch from Swakopmund to Walvis Bay. That’s what this trip is all about, experiencing the enormous...
The day of our long planned road trip through Namibia finally arrived. The trip would take us North from Cape Town to the border post at Vioolsdrift, through Windhoek to Tsumeb, then turning West through Etosha to Henties Bay on the coast. From Henties Bay we would turn South via Swakopmund, Walvis Bay and Sossusvlei, to the remote Western side of the Fish River...
Travelling from Cape Town at the end of January, when it’s at it’s hottest and driest, to Austria in mid winter, with temperatures in the early minuses and snow on the ground is quite a shock to the system. We flew from Cape Town, via Johannesburg, to Munich and then traveled by road to Zell Am See in the Tirol region of Southern Austria.[vc_single_image...
Mauritius seems to have become a kind of default destination to celebrate anniversaries for us, this trip was a week spent at the Paradise Cove Hotel in the North near Grand Baie, to celebrate our wedding anniversary. Direct Flight Cape Town to Mauritius One of the great things about Mauritius is it’s accessibility, a 5 hour flight on Air Mauritius, direct from...
Sossusvlei is such an awesome place, each visit has revealed another side to that unique place on this earth. This was a dad and kids long weekend road trip, quality time on the road with not much else to do on the long drive from Cape Town but connect.[vc_single_image image=”3735″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes”...
The Seychelles has got to be one of my favourite places in the world, reason enough to keep going back, this one is from a visit to Praslin Island with the family. Getting to Praslin The ferry from Mahe to Praslin takes around an hour and departs 3 times a day, but flying takes only 15 minutes with flights throughout the day. It costs a bit more...
Victoria Falls is probably not reflective of the rest of Zimbabwe, but as one of the country’s bigger foreign currency earners it’s been pretty much left alone. So it’s a nice little town, things work, the shops are stocked up, & hotels and restaurants are all open for business as usual.[vc_single_image image=”3790″...
At 1500 kilometres East of the coast of Kenya and Tanzania, the Seychelles Islands are pretty remote. As a country, it comprises of around 155 islands with a total population of 90 000 people, the majority of whom live on Mahé, the largest island. The capital city is Victoria, located on Mahé, visitors coming in by air will arrive at the international airport. The...
When I was a teenager, there was a popular song which went something like “woah I’m going to Barbados, in the sunny Caribbean Sea“. That song really talked to me, ever since I have had an obsession with visiting that island. Eventually, circumstances made that dream become a possibility, and then a reality and the trip was on...