Diddakoi Walt Whitman
Take me home...St Emilion  kay@diddakoi.com

Updated: 03/07/07



Other places to visit

The Bleat
Tightly Wound
Miss Doxie
Waiter Rant
Netflix
Epicurious
Free The Grapes


What's on the nightstand

"A Secret Atlas"
by Michael A. Stackpole

explain

snow


Wednesday, 07 March, 2007

Finally, I have organized the Africa trip. It took a bit of doing, and a couple of hours on the phone with Virgin Atlantic, but we're set! Here's the plan:

Thursday, April 19
Drop off Suki at Kitty Spa (a.k.a., the vet's)

Friday, April 20
3:30 a.m. - Car service pick up to transfer transfer to JFK (*yawn*)
7:30 a.m. - Virgin Atlantic Flight 26 departs JFK
7:10 p.m. - Arrive LHR
Overnight at Hilton London Heathrow Airport

Saturday, April 21
Day trip to Windsor Castle
8:25 p.m. - Virgin Atlantic Flight 601 departs LHR

Sunday, April 22
8:30 a.m. - Arrive JNB (Johannesburg, South Africa)
11:05 a.m. - British Airways Flight 6291 departs JNB
12:40 p.m. - Arrive LVI (Livingstone, Zambia)
Ker & Downey - Ground transfer to Muchenje Safari Lodge, Chobe National Park (Botswana)

Tuesday, April 24
Ker & Downey - Air transfer to Shinde Camp, Okavango Delta (Botswana)

Friday, April 27
Ker & Downey - Air transfer to Selinda Camp, Linyanti Game Reserve, Okavango Delta (Botswana)

Sunday, April 29
Ker & Downey - Air transfer to MUB (Maun, Botswana)
10:00 a.m. - Air Botswana Flight 215 departs MUB
12:00 p.m. - Arrive JNB
2:00 p.m. - British Airways Flight 6419 departs JNB
4:10 p.m. - Arrive CPT (Cape Town, South Africa)
Ground transfer to The Cape Cadogan Hotel, Cape Town

Tuesday, May 1
Ground transfer – 1 ½ hours to Birkenhead House, Voelklip (Hermanus), South Africa

Wednesday, May 2
Great White Shark Cage Diving

Friday, May 4
Ground transfer to CPT
3:35 p.m. - Nationwide Flight 723 departs CPT
5:35 p.m. - Arrive JNB
9:00 p.m. - Virgin Flight 602 departs JNB

Saturday, May 5
6:55 a.m. - Arrive LHR
9:30 a.m. - Virgin Flight 3 departs LHR
12:10 p.m. - Arrive JFK
Car service to Philadelphia

Whew! It's a lot packed into two weeks of travel. We're getting excited: Gary has all of his clothes laid out in the study already. I guess I'm excited too - I actually pulled out my old "weighs nothing" duffel bag and ordered a new camera battery. And since we're leaving at 3:30 a.m. I guess I'll have to pack prior to the morning of travel.

[Or stay up all night.]

SAVE YOUR CORKS!!

[Only 4,923 more needed for our Wine Cellar Wall.]

Quote du jour:

"There is always something new out of Africa.”

Pliny the Elder (23 - 79) Roman naturalist

previous ~ home ~ next