Adam's World

My sisters and their family, including 2 young kids, came to Kenya for their first trip to Kenya. We started with Nairobi, then went to...

2025 ends with some quiet, as the big family vacation is planned in Easter. Andrea and the girls are in Germany whilst I am in Kenya wrappin...

As the holidays began (and after I went up to Lewa for the annual Half Marathon in the Conservancy with work colleagues, and also the annual...

The school term ended with a Horse Riding competition. This is a big deal in our family. Not just because the Kids go horse riding twice a w...

We are almost half way through 2025 and it has gone by in a flash. The beginning of the year was busy with some big events at work in Kenya ...

Unusually the whole family was in the UK for all of Christmas (usually we go to Germany first), and there was thus a lot of time spent with ...

The second half of 2024 began in the aftermath of the protests - with a government promising to make changs and to listen to the issues rais...

Having been unable to get away last summer, I did manage 2 weeks this Summer. Whether it was really summer or not is debatable. There were a...

5 weeks ago protests erupted in Kenya, ostentiously because of resistance to the new taxes the government planned to bring in, but primarily...

For the kids Christmas presents, my mum, sister and I took them to France, to see Paris and to have 2 days at Disneyland Paris. They have al...

Back in England over Christmas tends to be the usual things. Of course a lot of time with my sister, her husband and their two kids as well ...

It's been a year since I was last in the UK and longer since I was last in Germany, so it was just wonderful to finally get back to what...

It has been quite a while since I last blogged which is really quite a shame. Following the operation around Easter time that had also meant...

The week before last I was in Cameroon, though only for a couple of days, and only in the capital city. I didn't see a lot, but I did no...

Though the losing side officially accepted the loss during last year's election, they didn't actually accept it. However rather than...

Shenzhen also didn't seem like it changed much - it had also mostly been finished several years ago, though there are a couple of new su...

On Saturday I arrived back in Beijing for the first time in almost 5 years (which was only a day trip), arriving at Beijing's newest and...

Over Easter the family decided against going to Europe or the Kenyan Coast and do something half way between - going inernational, but not t...

Another 2 weeks in the UK has passed. This time much less eventful than 12 months ago when getting COVID disrupted our trip. Now one would n...

The end of 2022 became quite hectic, even without too many overseas business trips (though there was one planned that was cancelled last min...

Leah's had her eight birthday party, a fairly standard activity nowadays with an entertainer (no bouncy castle or water slide of any kin...

With the pandemic now a distant memory and the Summer holidays over with, it is back to normal in every way, including regular international...

The election is all over. The losing side lost on all 9 issues that the Court considered (of which technology did come up in some of them ) ...

The election went off quite peacefully, though the waiting for the result was agony. Anyway, eventually after 6 days of an eerie atmosphere ...

Another Summer, another holiday with the family, though this time in a slightly different part of the UK; hopefully next time we can travel ...

It is election day in Kenya, 5 years after the last election (though that election had a re-run a few months later after the first one was a...