8 African Experiences to Transform You

Have you ever gone on a trip thinking from the outset: this will change my life? I haven’t and yet, in retrospect, each and every trip has in some way transformed me, transformed my life. What’s most surprising though, looking back at my travels through […]

An Instagrammer’s Guide to Zanzibar

Photographers travel the world to find the extraordinary, to capture those scenes that make their hearts race. That make them feel alive. They find it in the yawn of a lion and the leap of a leopard, in the soft eyes of the young and […]

How We Celebrated World Oceans Day 2018

“This is where I first learnt to swim,” he said. “As a kid we used to come down to this exact beach, my cousins and I. The whole family.” Grant, now the Head Chef of Ellerman House, spoke as he pointed to the sandy inlet […]

The Silent World of Anjajavy

On a morning adventure into the big blue waters around Anjajavy le Lodge, in the north of Madagascar, I discovered a few new things about life, love and myself. On that early Indian Ocean morning, lodge guide, Jonhson would pop his head out of the surface every […]

Flying to the Ends of the Earth – Madagascar

There are places in the world that are so remote they can only be accessed by air. Places that hold a great mystery for travellers and a distinctive bounty for those living there. In the globetrotting series, Flying to the Ends of the Earth, pilot and former Royal […]