Tag: Switzerland

Winter Holiday 2017

It all began, as so many modern misadventures do, with an unsolicited email. This one, from MSC Cruises, offered an implausibly inexpensive 17-night repositioning cruise from Genoa to Dubai. I briefly considered the prudent response—deleting it—but predictably opted for the impulsive one instead. Reader, I booked it. Given the December departure, we tacked on a …

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European Safari

Well I decided to give myself a bit of a treat for my birthday again this year, so in late October Malaika and I set off on a 3 week European Safari. We flew KLM to Vienna, arriving at 9 in the morning to find sunny skies but a temperature of 0! Caught the airport …

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