Victoria Falls (a.k.a. “The Smoke That Thunders” is truly a wonderful site. The falls border Zimbabwe and Zambia was seen by my grandmother in 1925 and myself in 1998. I…

My grandmother went to South Africa and Rhodesia (as it was then) in 1925. She travelled there from England by boat to South Africa then overland. I also travelled in…

Gibraltar a.k.a. “The Rock”. My granny saw it (I’m not sure if she actually visited) as part of her world cruise in 1932. I went there just this summer on…

Different Names – Same Place When my grandmother visited Columbo and Kandy during her world cruise in 1933, the country’s name was Ceylon.  During my visit to the same places…

One of the world’s most famous human achievements, the Great Wall is a wonderful place to visit. Seeing it snake up and down the hills of northern China is one…

The Taj Mahal.  One of the world’s most famous monuments and a ‘must’ see when visiting India.  It lives up to the hype and it’s beauty has not faded.  Here…

As part of the Empress of Britain world cruise, my grandmother stopped in Egypt in late 1932.  Together with her sister and mother they rode camels around the great pyramids…

My Travelling Heritage On a recent visit to HK, my parents brought with them (at my request) two of my grandmother’s photo albums.  My father’s mother, whom I called Granny,…