Holiday in Costa Rica – Chachagua Rainforest Eco Lodge
Last year August we started planning our holiday to Costa Rica. It was to be a family holiday with Mom and Dad. They are huge bird photographers and Costa Rica was a bucket list...
Category: World
Panoramas pulled from Google Photos with Photonic WordPress plugin.
Panoramas make for a lovely photograph, because one gets a lot more scenery in the photo. It takes a bit of practice taking a good panorama. In the old days one had to take...
Back in 1988.
1988 was a year to remember. I’ve been listening to the Depeche Mode 101 live album recently on my Google Play. It was such an awesome concert, I would have loved to have seen...
Holiday in Mexico City – Part 1.
Trip to Mexico Here we sit in bar in Mexico City International Airport. Our flight is delayed by 6 hours, so there is no better time to tell you about our holiday in Mexico...
What a year 2015 turned out to be?
2015 has proved to be an extra special year in a number of ways. There were a few firsts along the way for the Bowens. You know you are getting old when the...
Houston was a blast!
My work trip to Houston turned out to be a very productive week. It is always fun going to Houston as my colleagues at Platts like to spoil me rotten, and this time was...
Look at the impressive EE fibre speeds.
On Monday we said goodbye to our SKY broadband and telephone package. Our broadband package really sucked. It was a 15MB SKY broadband package but we never actually got more than 7MB download speed....
Ouch! R20 buys you £1 only.
All this means is that less South Africans will be traveling to our wonderful land. It should mean cheaper holidays to South Africa, if only the airlines would play ball and drop their prices....
Two day meeting at ICE in Atlanta.
The 6th of July was an interesting day because Jo and I flew back from Budapest, where we had been staying for the weekend of the Red Bull Air Race. It was an early...
How could The Proteas lose that cricket game?
Disaster! South Africa beaten by Pakistan in the cricket world cup at Eden park, New Zealand. A game we should have won with ease. Even more disappointing as I was up the whole night....
Car Rental – Thrifty Tower Bridge branch is brilliant.
I recently hired a BMW from the Tower Bridge branch of Thrifty.co.uk and I can tell you the service and experience was excellent. The price was equally good considering they beat every other car...
The thug Iain Dale and the blog about the incident he doesn’t want you to see.
You might have read about a blogger scrapping with a protestor at a political conference recently, if not take a look at the video below. You can also see photographs and a report by...
Difference between USA and RSA…
You got to love the takkies without socks, so traditional.:-) No one seems to know either, which of the nine wives this one is?
Snakes alive!
It is not often one gets to see the UK’s only venomous snake species out in the wild. Jo and I were walking in the North Downs, in Kent’s Trosley Country Park, when we...
Why GPS is a must in South Africa?
Only in South Africa! 🙂
Tickets booked for THE KILLERS at Hyde Park.
After the ridiculous, impossible struggle to get Glastonbury tickets, I was expecting the same problems for The Killers and yet it was a doddle. From the Absolute Radio website there is a link to...
We are Mike and Jo Bowen. Originally from South Africa, we now live & work in the United Kingdom. Mike is the blogger,