After successfully surviving the trans-Atlantic flight in tourist class, making our way through Irish Immigration, and procuring a rental car complete with a wifi hotspot, we headed out on our first day of exploring the countryside. Our plan is to carry enough food for snacks in the car and a couple of simple meals so we headed to the Aldi in Swords north of Dublin, Ireland. but they weren’t yet open on this Sunday morning. Instead we went into town in search of Black Pudding and found it as part of a Full Irish Breakfast at the Harp Lounge in the Carnegie Court Hotel! A delicious and filling start to our visit to The Emerald Isle!
Queen Mary 2’s arrival in the Port of Dakar, Senegal was heralded in the local press and greeted with ceremony. Our own excursion took us on a coach journey through the streets of the capital city to visit a Wolof village and the shore of Lake Retba, the salty lake famed for an intense pink color.
Today’s safari adventure transported us out into the Dorob National Park to have up close encounters with little creatures that are well adapted to the extreme heat and lack of water in the Namib Desert.
With a UNESCO World Heritage Site, two national parks, dozens of museums, and hundreds of tours offered in the Cape Town area there is more than plenty to do. For our two day visit we opted to concentrate on African wildlife visiting the Aquila Private Game Reserve and the Boulders Beach Penguin Colony for a wonderful chance to these fabulous animals in their own habitat.
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