A Charmed Life

I am so lucky that my parents are adventurers At three we went to Los Palmas and stayed there until I was five living in a wonderful house with a flat roof that hosted our garden and I had a dolls house that I could walk in and so many dolls that I took apart to see how they worked but couldn't repair. Mum and I spent our days mainly at the beach each day a man came by with a cart and donkey but I was never allowed to stroke him as he bit people I was given a rare butterfly that I never saw hatch I was so disappointed to miss seeing it before it flew away. One time I cut myself on sugar cane and the brute of a doctor poured iodine on it and boy it stung I would not let him stitch it sand kept getting in it and I was left with a scar that I used to tell right from left I bare it still this day. We drove up in the mountains and both me and my sister saw a lady dressed like a witch high up on a cliff ridge we had to turn back after a few miles due to landslides and she was gone but we both remember her she had a pointed hat. Shortly after we returned to London and spent nearly three years there and once more we were on our travels to East Africa we arrived in Dar-es-Salaam harbour on my eight birthday I promptly went down with malaria and missed the first week of our stay there and then we moved to Dodoma where we stayed for 2 years before going back to Dar for the next eight years we had many unforgettable adventures. Like being chased by an angry rhino he landed so close to us as we went down the embarkment nearly on our roof and on the way back we were chased by a bull elephant ears flapping he nearly caught us we were lucky that the road flattened and we could speed up but boy it was a close one my father has it on his cine camera. Safaris were great fun we stayed in a great tent the poles were about three inches thick but not much protection if a lion came into camp we could hear them roaring to each other close by. We saw them a few times a we drove around exploring the Serengeti and watched them bring down a deer and the feeding frenzy that followed they are vicious. Africa is a place of magic and to this day holds a special place in my heart what a childhood we had. Days spent sailing Dar harbour and out to sea once our catamaran started to sink about half a mile from Honeymoon Island and it took ages before people saw we were in trouble and help arrived to help us and in barracuda waters we got saved just in time. as I said I have lived a charmed life there were many other adventures I have picked some of them to share with you.