A day out in Bedfordshire – Woburn Safari Park

When the weather is too hot that even with aircon on it’s unbearable….its time to take to the car…smaller space to keep cool…..so off we went to Woburn Safari Park….A few shots from today….wildlife doing what wildlife does🤣🤣🤣
Not great photos because it was busy today so no opportunities to photograph with the window down….so everything’s taken through the window…..
Bears playing hide and seek up a tree, bears doing what bears do reaching fruit from a tree, tigers, rhinos, lions sleeping in the shade, the new dwarf buffalo with mum….

While one lion acts as lookout the rest sleep.

New Logo and Photos for sale …

Hi everyone

Just to let you know we have a new logo for 2J’s World of Adventure…We hope you like it…

Since returning from Scotland we have been busy printing and framing sone of our favourite photos up. On Saturday July 4th at 2 pm, in Balls Lane Willington, we will be selling them at the Bedford Disabled Horse Riding Association Summer fete.

The large A2 frames contain A3 prints and will be sold for £25.

The medium sized A3 frames with A4 prints will be sold at £20

The smaller square frames with 20x20cm prints will be sold for £15

Mounted A4 photos with no frame will be sold for £10.

There are plenty more to choose from these are just a few…..if any take your fancy and you wish to make a purchase please contact us by emailing

2jsworldofadventure@gmail.

com

Or better still come and see us and help support a charity we are passionate about.

A few of our favourite sunset photos…..

Unfortunately we can no longer offer them at the very cheap price we did previously because our printer had stopped trading …however we have found another printer with top studio Fine Art quality paper -Baryta Rag (cotton310gm) with Lustre finish to help prevent reflections and fading but still give vibrant colours…..
So our prints are now back up for sale as A3, mounted and framed ( black or white frames, white mounts) for £49.95 inclusive of UK mainland postage.
We can print any of the sunsets or wildlife photos… just message us or email us at
2jsworldofadventure@gmail.com

Chobe River Botswana
Seville at night – Spain
Kruger National Park South Africa
Chobe River Botswana
Reflections on Chobe River Botswana
The last Rays of the Day – South Africa
Goodnight – Kruger National Park South Africa
Evening Safari Drive Kruger National Park South Africa
Another Wonderful Day Draws to an End – Kruger National Park South Africa
Raw Bushland at Dusk – South Africa
From Botswana to Namibia Sleep Well- Chobe River Botswana
Another Beautiful Day says Goodnight- Chobe River South Africa
Unforgettable Moments – Chobe River Botswana
Kruger National Park South Africa

2026 Holiday Ideas China

We are beginning to put together ideas for our 2026 holidays. We are off to Scotland in May for 3 weeks and we are also fitting in other UK based breaks as well as nipping over to Spain to see family. However our main overseas holiday this year is a toss up between China and Egypt…but our thoughts are that we will do China later this year and Egypt next year ( because we’ve been to Egypt before). We have never been to China and there are certain sights we want to see.

Like every place in the world people will say “Why didn’t you go to see” this or that…. Well my answer is that you sometimes just want to see what you want to see!!!!!

We’ve put the package we want to do together… and I’ve now emailed it to Maisie Morton at DialAFlight…(+441618418179. Maisie.morton@dialaflight.co.uk) to see if she can work her magic on it. I want to bring it down further in price which I can do by changing hotels and breaking some tours down…but at the moment I have put the skeleton together with some meat on the bones to give us an idea of what we want to do and see…….one of our main reasons for going is to see Giant Pandas and also the Terracotta Army and the Great Wall of China.

26/09/26 meant to read with local family meal !!!!!!………… we did something similar in India a few years ago and it was a lovely experience….

I’ll let you see what Maisie has to say and what we decide on.

Reflection of 2025

Firstly and foremost John and I wish you happy festivities wherever you are in the world .

2025 started slowly for us. John had two eye operations which slowed our travelling down. We also had a February deadline for another of our books – “50 Gems of Bedfordshire” it will be published February 2026 by Amberley Books. …I think this will be about Johns 30th book with Amberley Publishers…and my 2nd!

In April we headed to Norfolk with my Dad. We hired a lovely bungalow near Sheringham for a week. What a lovely week it was, meandering around our beautiful countryside.

May saw John and I heading to Portugal and Southern Spain….we fell in love with Praia de Luz ….wonderful apartment for a week, super beach, restaurants and “Jackson Mystery Tours” around the countryside….(that’s Johns name for exploring and getting lost).

A wonderfully relaxing and “chill out” time.

We travelled up to Spain and spent time in an intriguing village called El Rocio….a real throw back place on the edge of a national park which is home to the highest number of Iberian Lynx in Spain…needless to say we didn’t see one…but we did very much enjoy our time there.

We travelled on up to Seville for a week…hiring a strange apartment in a residential block. We enjoyed the Cathedral, horses and carriage sight seeing, a river cruise and a flamenco show.

Driving back into Portugal we stayed a week in a holiday complex apartment near Albuferia….ummm not one of our best accommodation choices…. But we made the most of it with beach days and exploring the area.

Back in the UK we had a variety of days out with Dad, such as a coffee on a longboat on the Grand Union Canal

The end of July we headed for Devon. A fantastic occasion which saw my sister as a truly radiant bride as she married Mark….a day which was such a happy occasion.

September came and yippee! we were off to South Africa…..

Much joy as we met up with good friend Gill and our dearest Cora

Then off to Kruger for 3 weeks of heaven…..this year we started at the most southern point and went right up to the northern tip……Mother Nature blessed us and we saw some truly magnificent sights…

Our cameras didn’t stop clicking…but we did take a few shots of people..

And of course there were some fantastic sunsets…

Back to the UK we went with Dad to the New Forest in mid November…although it was cold it was still fabulous to see the ponies and we sat watching them on several occasions from what was my mums favourite spot….a joyful occasion we repeat every year…

As we reach the end of 2025 there is nothing left to say except to wish all our followers a Very Happy 2026…we hope your year is filled with adventures, laughter and love.

Jenny & John