BILL AND ELIZABETH'S AFRICAN SAFARI



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MAY 19 to 21ST LONDON ENGLAND
MAY 22, 23, 24TH CAPETOWN SOUTH AFRICA, PENNISULA TOUR, WINE COUNTRY TOUR
MAY 25, 26 WINDHOEK CAPITAL OF NAMIBIA
MAY 27, 28TH BY AIR TO SOSSUSVLEI LODGE AND THE NAMIBIAN DESERT DUNES
MAY 29 TUESDAY SKELTON COAST, WALVIS BAY, SWAKOPMUND, MOWANI MT CAMP LODGE
MAY 30, 31ST AFRICAT AND OKONJIMA
JUNE 1, 2ND ANDERSSON'S CAMP AND ETHOSA PARK
JUNE 3, 4TH THE FORT ONGUMA PLAIN
JUNE 5, 6TH ICHOBEZI HOUSEBOATS
JUNE 7, 8TH VICTORIA FALLS
JUNE 9TH VICTORIA FALLS TO LONDON
JUNE 9TH LONDON ENGLAND
JUNE 10TH SUNDAY FLT HOME

MAY 19 to 21ST LONDON ENGLAND

FLYING HOME TO SEE MOTHER ENGLAND.

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Being Italian visiting Italy on many occasions is adventuresome and emotional especially when visiting the home town of all my grandparents. I find great comfort since everything is familiar since my family's background is Italy. However I don't speak Italian and that keeps me at a small distance.

However when I visit England I feel  I am coming home. I speak English and that allows me to get closer to the culture of England then Italy. I grew up as a youngster in the waning days of Canada's close relationship with England. I sang God Save the King to the Union Jack. I learned the history of England's Kings and Queens. I knew of the building of the British Empire where the sun never set. I learned its values like fair play, I played its sports like rugby, I learned to sing in the pub songs like Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner, and I even learned to like Scottish Haggis. I am one of a diminishing number baby boomers who still knows how to sing by heart God Save the Queen, They'll always be an England and I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts.

To me I still sing out loud and clear They'll always be an England...and I am glad.





LIFE IS A SAFARI!