Today hasn’t been the greatest, but we have seen a lot more than some of the other groups. We saw a cheetah hidden away in a little bush – I have no idea how anyone found out it was there. We were literaly 10 ft away and I almost missed seeing it. Then as we … Read More
the first couple of hours were almost mind numbing… i think because we had to drive 5 hours from nairobi to masai mara through roads with potholes the size of a small car, we were already dead tired. We arrived into Masai Mara and checked into our rooms at the Fig Tree Hotel (ok, ok, … Read More
Baby Khaki’s Wings: **** (four stars) This turned out to be the best book to read while out here. It a collection of short stories which take place in various East African and Canadian cities and are very Ismaili centric (specifically Ismailis from East Africa) – many of the stories I could relate to – … Read More
time: 10:00pm on Thursday… just landed into mombasa and into the hotel – unreal place. it’s actually in Diani in the south of mombasa. the beach is phenomenal. This is going to be one great trip! time: midnight Saturday — This has got to be one of the best weddings I have ever been to! … Read More
yet another layover in Dubai – this time for all of 8 hours… from 1 am to 10am. there’s no point leaving the airport since the malls are closed – so i’ve decided to just roam around the airport for awhile, find a good place to sleep. I’ve pretty much slept the entire toronto to … Read More
man – i just took a look at a recent Mercer report about the cost of living across of the world. http://www.finfacts.com/costofliving.htm Toronto is about 20% cheaper than NYC and more than 30% cheaper than London. and although everyone keeps saying that there is a difference in costs, there isn’t that much difference in the … Read More
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/story.html?id=3967dfee-6ca4-40c3-83ac-55f3ffa70c79&k=85878 Hopefully this means that the overall quality of flights will increase as well. I’ve flown BA between London and Toronto and also between London and San Francisco (and other american cities) – BA flights to the US are way better than those to Canada. I couldn’t figure out why, but a friend of mine … Read More
This was a great event – dinner at the drake web 2.0 definitely has a lot of hype surrounding it making it uncomfortably close to becoming bubble 2.0 There were far too many businesses are just creating the ‘next social network’ with business models based purely on ad revenue. Sure online advertising is a much … Read More
so i had to post this. the idea that Al Gore had put together a movie which is basically just clips of him travelling the world giving powerpoint presentations about global warming – or as he calls it, the climate crisis, had me a bit skeptical – my friend was putting together the Canadian premier … Read More
Shadow in the Wind: ***1/2 stars i actually finished this book while i was still in india, and had written this up in a notepad, but am only getting around to copying it over now. ok, ok, so it isn’t necessarily a book that would first come to mind when traveling India, but hey, India … Read More