Catching Up with Faraway Family, USA & UK – June 2013
A thunderous five-minute hail storm turns Beach Road and the Sea Point Promenade snow-white
The month of June got off to a promising start with a couple of cover features hitting the shelves in SA 4×4 (https://www.stevecunliffe.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/SA-4×4-Southeast-Namibia-Final.pdf) and Wild magazine (https://www.stevecunliffe.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Wild-Addo-Final.pdf). Initial feedback has been very pleasing.
Catching up with Dom in London
With Cape Town experiencing some unseasonably brutal early winter weather – not to mention freak hailstorms – it was with some relief that I climbed aboard my American Airlines flight to Minneapolis to join my wife and in-laws for a ten-day getaway in the USA. This year’s visit was a whirlwind tour that included an exciting Minnesota Twins vs Chicago White Sox baseball game, an informative and boozy Summit micro-brewery tour, my first bluegrass music concert at the zoo, regular Mississippi cycling excursions and a long weekend away boating on the idyllic lakes around Brainerd. Summertime in Minnesota really is unbeatable.
From America, we headed to the UK to visit my sisters and brother-in-laws in London. But it was the newest addition to the family – my nephew Dominic – that was the underlying catalyst for our Southfields visit. He’s a classic little guy with a big smile and plenty of energy. It was great to meet Dom and catch up with the family, but the other highlight of our London stopover was taking my wife and sisters on a tour of my old school. We spent a fun-filled Sunday walking around Harrow-on-the-Hill, exploring my old stomping grounds at Harrow School before finishing off with a tasty lunch at the Doll’s House tea garden.
So, after taking much of June off to visit my far-flung family, July sees me heading ‘back to the grindstone’ with a couple of exciting-sounding assignments on the cards – foremost among these is a 4×4 adventure to explore the full complement of Maputaland game reserves in northern KwaZulu-Natal. Bring it on…
A fun-filled family gathering in the UK with my young nephew proving that he can really pull a crowd