Who wants to be sitting wide-eyed in the Serengeti in a wheelchair? Hard to maneuver when the rhino runs, the hippo heaves, the leopard lunges, the monkeys make merry, the lion leaps, the wildebeest wizzes, the elephant eliminates, the zebra zig zags and the giraffe... giraffes. If surrounding yourself with true African nature one day is on your bucket list then do it NOW before a disease or age decides to come knocking. Few of us, Dick Clark aside, are getting younger. I met a remarkable man who has led several fascinating safaris and is now going to lead me on my first this September. “It’s always nice to have a doctor around if we ever need one, but if you need one yourself... you’re on your own. We don’t often get a doctor on these safaris.”

I am inviting you to come with us. It is easy enough and posh enough that you could just about do this in a wheelchair and not disturb your nail polish (so I am going with my usual florescent mango). Do not live a life of “I wish I had's. This is the best of Africa and involves guides who are amongst the best in Kenya and Tanzania. So, unless you and Shirley MacLaine have a plan you’re not sharing with us, you only live once. I am promised that this will be one of the most sentinel times in your life!