Saturday, February 16, 2019

Skiing in LGB, and Paris

Me and Joe drove down to Le Grand Bornand in the French Alps to meet the Emsworth crowd for a weeks skiing and snowboarding...
Joe, Seth, Simon and George...
Joe on the planks :-)
Me and Paul celebrating a great day with a cold one :-)
Looking out of our balcony down at le Grand Bornand...
Joe and Seth on the lift...
Lunch on the St Annes run.  Hot and sunny all week in February!
All the lads at the top :-)
Spot of apres ski in Le Pub :-)
Back on the slopes with an eager skier....
Meeting up with Rayner, Finn and Seth...
Joe and Seth...
A bit of off piste action with Simon...
 More apres-ski :-)   Joe in shorts in the snow!
Joe with skiing hair...
More hot and sunny weather...
We celebrated a fantastic week with a spot of night skiing and a cracking meal, and a few shots in Chinaillon...
On the way home me and Joe stopped in Paris, and went to see the Six Nations Rugby Match between France and Scotland...
France were too good for the Scots...
It finished 27v10...
We went to Montmartre after the rugby...
We climbed the 300 steps up to the Sacre Coeur...
Magnificent Catholic Cathedral...
Bit of cafe life in Montmartre...
Looking over nighttime Paris...
Back home on the ferry, what a fantastic week :-)

Friday, February 15, 2019

Lisa and Karen in Tanzania

Lisa with the Maasai tribe in the Serengeti, Tanzania...
All photos (apart from this one) were taken by Lisa on her camera...
Lisa, Karen and Gran went on Safari in Tanzania.  Scary elephant!
Serval cat.
They rode around in these Land Rovers...
Family of lions...
Some happy hippos...
Lion creeping up on a baby elephant....
Friendly elephants...
There were lots of exotic birds...
The Serengeti...
The giraffe is the national animal of Tanzania...
Hello!
Beautiful blue Heron...
  Cheetah checking out his lunch...
Zebras crossing...
They've heard something...
A parade of elephants...
Ooo ooo ooo...
Tortoise hurrying across the road...
A Superb Starling...
Karen with the Maasai ladies...
Traditional dancing...
Animals grazing in the Ngorongoro Crater...
Hungry giraffe...
Maasai Primary School...
Kiswahil lessons...
The board...
Lisa at the lunchtime picnic spot...
One last elephant.
What an amazing trip.  Thanks Gran and thanks Tanzania :-)