Dec
28
Footsteps - Your Guide to Provençal Paradise
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COMING SOON ON AMAZON!
When we started Bastide les Amis as a self-catering rental property in Menerbes, we provided our guests with a printed Guide to the property and some useful day trips and items of local interest which are often not carried in the more commercial and established Guide Books.
We’ve had such a great reaction and coupled with the growing readership of this website, we felt that we should expand the concept into a 100 page book. Lovonne’s beautiful photographs taken over the seasons, complement the words which give you a highly personalised view of the Luberon and surrounds.
From a [very] short History of Provence, to day trips, some quirky trips like discovering the secrets behind the ‘turnarounds’ (the roundabouts!) to ‘Finding your way around a French supermarket’, Footsteps has been designed to give you an insight before, during and even after your trip to Provence - no matter how many times you have been here.
Footsteps - the Luberon and Surrounds, is available from Amazon as a hard copy book or can be downloaded via the Kindle App on to your ipad, iphone or any other smart/tablet device. The price is €19.00 (GBP16.00;US$24.99;AU$25.00;ZAR206.00). Downloading the Kindle app is free - merely go to your favourite App Store.
*Currency conversions apply from US$ at time of writing, Amazon will orovde their own ruling price at purchase.
COMING SOON ON AMAZON! To pre-order, contact: simonburrow@orange.fr
Nov
28
The Remarkable Elephant Rescue
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Most conservationists believe that man should not meddle with the natural order and that we should allow nature to run her course however cruel or grim it seems to be. We agree on the whole, unless a wildlife problem has been created by man (for instance in the case of snaring or being trapped in a fence, in which case it’s justifiable to intervene) then nature should be left to her own devices. She has a plan.
However - every rule has an exception and the dreadful plight of a baby elephant trapped in the mud of the Kapani Lagoon in Zambia and her mother, who had also got stuck trying to save her had everyone there all in a frenzy of activity. For once, people could not stand back and let nature take its course.
See these amazing pictures:
The herd hover anxiously over a mother and its calf who are stuck in the mud in a river bed in Zambia. Mom and baby are exhausted.
This is as far up a the calf can get before collapsing to the ground again - Mother has almost given up. The herd have taken their leave.
Rangers start to wind rope around the calf.
The calf is pulled upright
And out I come!
Now to release the ropes
I'm off! The calf totters off to join the herd
Now for Mom. She's exhausted.
A tractor this time and some very strong rope
Here I come!
Ropes have been dropped and adrenalin takes over
Where's my calf?
Nov
22
South Africa : R.I.P. Democracy
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Zapiro cartoon - Timeslive.co.za
Nov
16
Nov
13
R.I.P. Peter Roebuck
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The world mourns the greatest cricket writer of his generation. He went where others dared not to - long may he be remembered.
Oct
30
A Moment of Truth
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Sometimes it’s a good thing to break with normal transmission and ponder some of lfe’s truths:
[Thanks, darling]
Oct
25
A Slice of South African Life
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Real pic - thanks to John W.
Joburg.
Oct
23
The Great USA Road Trip - The Farm/2
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Looking out from the farmhouse towards the acres of soya bean plantations
Erica strides out amongst the well laid out gardens filled with aromatic herbs
Sunset in Virginia
Tudor - one of the resident cats, rather likes the salad bowl
A lone dolphin circles our boat
The Chesapeake Bay bridge and tunnels - 24 miles long in both directions, linking Cape Charles with Norfolk in Virginia, USA
Madame and Erica with the bridges in the background
YT and Madame riding the wavs with the Admiral up front directing Danny behind the wheel
Cute little sculpture at the entrance to an Arnold Palmer golf development in Cape Charles
Atmospheric Cape Charles house in need of TLC
Oct
17
Ulu-Lapa - Totsiens / Au Revoir
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Until the next time - tot volgende keer……..
Oct
16
Ulu-Lapa - The Gallery/4
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Ulu-Lapa is amongst some serious luminaries in the game viewing stakes
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