Mike’s Blog

Hi All Two of the most important essentials for increasing participation in any social sport are to have sensible, dedicated committee members along with healthy sponsorship from a local supporting company. Electrosales is one such company sponsoring an annual two-day Mountain Biking event at the start of November each year. This last weekend there were […]

Hi All Some people are born organisers. They, typically, meet up with fellow competitors after an event and chat about possibilities in their discipline. One such group has linked up recently to form Zimbabwe Masters Swimming. Last Saturday morning they put together a well organised international event at the Harare International School with teams coming

Hi All Contrary to widely held views amongst the non-bowling public, the game of lawn bowls requires a lot of skill and practice before one can seriously challenge the best in the game. I consider myself one of those competitive types who play to win at any sport, always humbly accepting defeat when beaten (Often!)

Hi All The best time of the year to visit any of our National Parks Game Reserves is during the couple of months before the annual November rains arrive. At this time of the year the wildlife returns to the more prolific waterholes and the vegetation starts to thin out, making for easier visibility. Having

Hi All, Having spent a long day on the Vic Falls / Hwange Road yesterday, I made the decision to change the timing of my return flight to Harare. The net result was an overnighter in the Falls at one of my favourite guest houses, Nkosi Lodge, One of Bayete’s three very fine, reasonably priced Lodges

Hi All First impressions always count, especially when you are a discerning visitor to an International Fair like the Sanganai Tourism Expo held in Mutare last week. I popped into the show the night before to have a glimpse of what to expect and was immediately taken in by the Mountain Lakes exhibition – A

Hi All Seeing a leopard in any of Zimbabwe’s free roaming National Parks is one of those rare privileges that is generally only experienced by regular visitors to those special wildlife areas. My work colleague and I were recently invited to spend a few nights in Machaba’s Ingwe Pan Camp situated within the inland Jesse

Hi All Life in the city goes along like a flash in a blur and most folks seldom take a true break from it all. I was travelling down to Bulawayo for the Inter-District Bowls tournament over the long weekend. So, I took the opportunity to drive out to my spiritual heaven (The Matopos) to