It was over thirty-five years since I had used the Royal Geographical Society (RGS)’s Expedition Advisory Centre to help me organize my first expedition to Egypt in 1989. I had been able to get assistance without visiting their facility in London’s South Kensington. I had also been a member of a university expedition to VenezuelaContinue reading “An Expedition to the Royal Geographical Society”
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Remembering D Day
On 6th June 1944 when I was cycling along the Bath Road, near Hounslow, with a big field of cabbages on my left, little did I realise that in the future that site would become Heathrow Airport. As I cycled, hundreds of aircraft, all towing gliders, flew overhead going southeastwards. Little did I realise thatContinue reading “Remembering D Day”
The Adventures of the Cajunlimeys 