Comments on: When John Met an Elephant https://www.themarionfsblog.com/when-john-met-an-elephant/ Sharing a personal adventure together Mon, 20 Jul 2015 17:26:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: marion https://www.themarionfsblog.com/when-john-met-an-elephant/#comment-56 Fri, 03 Jul 2015 04:11:06 +0000 http://www.themarionfsblog.com/?p=9325#comment-56 In reply to Marilyn Walton.

Marilyn, hi, thinking of you and Alan in Bellac enjoying the French sunshine, food and wine! Sorry about the lack of photos, but I did eventually manage to insert an image of John’s elephant into the original post. Hopefully when we get back we’ll be able to show many more photos. John has taken well over 1000!!

]]> By: Marilyn Walton https://www.themarionfsblog.com/when-john-met-an-elephant/#comment-53 Thu, 02 Jul 2015 19:43:26 +0000 http://www.themarionfsblog.com/?p=9325#comment-53 Hello Marion and John
We’ve arrived in Bellac for a lovely long summer break and it’s been fascinating to catch up on your most recent adventures – you should be dining out on them for a long time to come! I shall look forward to seeing the photographic evidence, although not, perhaps, a selfie of John during the elephant encounter, which sound terrifying. I’m so glad your trip has been so successful so far and hope it continues in the same way.
Best wishes
Marilyn

]]> By: marion https://www.themarionfsblog.com/when-john-met-an-elephant/#comment-52 Thu, 02 Jul 2015 18:38:32 +0000 http://www.themarionfsblog.com/?p=9325#comment-52 In reply to Doug.

John says he was even more scared of trooper Jackson, and is quite convinced he was almost certainly secreting green fluid. Good thing we escaped on time even though you had to pay a fine. You have to look behind the elephant’s ears – you’d better warn Millie.best greetings to you all!

]]> By: Doug https://www.themarionfsblog.com/when-john-met-an-elephant/#comment-51 Thu, 02 Jul 2015 18:05:54 +0000 http://www.themarionfsblog.com/?p=9325#comment-51 So your elephant incident did remind me of our Trooper Jackson incident in North Carolina…John asking if it was ok to take his photo. I of course said no as I’m sure the trooper was staring to secret green fluid!
Have a great trip and regards to John.
xx

]]> By: marion https://www.themarionfsblog.com/when-john-met-an-elephant/#comment-50 Thu, 02 Jul 2015 16:01:22 +0000 http://www.themarionfsblog.com/?p=9325#comment-50 In reply to Bev.

Dear Bev
Lovely to hear from you. Sorry about the lack of photos, we’ll make up for it when we get home, all being well. How interesting about Millie. We went to an elephant orphanage at Lilayi, just outside Lusaka, where we had such an interesting talk from the official there.
We have been delighted with Audley. Cannot fault them! It has given us a taste for carefree luxury travel though, which we will be reluctant to break!
Very much love to you all, and good luck to Millie. We look forward to hearing how she gets on.

]]> By: Bev https://www.themarionfsblog.com/when-john-met-an-elephant/#comment-49 Thu, 02 Jul 2015 15:15:06 +0000 http://www.themarionfsblog.com/?p=9325#comment-49 John and Marion, enjoyed reading this flurry of posts so much – what a tremendous trip and do wish we could see photos too! Marion this must all be reawakening so many memories for you. Interested to see that you went with Audley – we used them when we went to “pre-glasnost” Cuba and they were absolutely brilliant, hope you have had the same experience. I am sending link about John’s elephant experience to Millie who is just embarking on 3 week trip volunteering in an elephant orphanage in Thailand – could be some useful tips there…. looking forward to the next instalments from you lots of lo ve Bev xxxx

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