Two of the young elephants currently awaiting export in Zimbabwe
Elephants have paced across Africa for more millennia than man. It is their home … but it’s not safe.
What’s going on with Zimbabwe’s elephants?
What to do when air traffic control goes wrong
Not going anywhere.
I am an infrequent, economy class flyer still in wonder at the impossibly of it all. Last weekend I had a new experience.
We had been told that the flights we were due to take were headed into trouble – a general strike in Italy. My son was on a British Airways (BA) afternoon flight scheduled to leave shortly after mine and the travel agent’s advice to both of us was that all would be well as Italy would be back at work by the evening.
In the end it was as I buckled in that the delay was announced. Suddenly optimism vanished into a mix of flat light, long stranded hours and these few lessons learned:
The hands of Naples
The shoe polisher at the heart of the commute on Via Toledo
The morning walk to work files to and fro through the city. On a good day some will stop to add a shine to their shoes.
The Phraser 