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!) […]
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Playing Piano: It’s a proven fact that, as you progress through life, you should continually reinvent yourself – set yourself very different objectives that require you being outside your comfort zone. This is especially true when you go through that Empty Nest syndrome. When I was over in New York for their marathon a
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
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HI All, There are, from my limited experience, three very different ways to overnight in Mana Pools: National Parks have 3 very basic brick under tile lodges that come complete with bedding and showers; the second option is to book your own self-catering campsite; or, you decide to splash out and leave the organisation to someone else by staying
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Hi All It’s a strange phenomenon whereby, no matter how fit you are from training for one sport, when you start playing a different activity, there will be unused muscles or ligaments that are in a relative state of atrophy. All that triathlon training, and I “Hobble” home from bowls with very stiff quads and
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Acupuncture: The thought of subjecting any part of my body to Acupuncture has, to my Western Mind, always given rise to thoughts of fear – “No Way Jose”. Playing golf with different schools over the past 60ish years, however, I have met some very interesting people. One such person, that was in my fourball recently,
