Aidan Hartley Aidan Hartley

My nonagenarian father-in-law has embraced East Africa

Late in his life, it has been the compensation for the India he lost as a youth

Credit: Alamy 
issue 21 January 2023

Kenya

My father-in-law Gerry Taylor is 91 and walks daily on our Kenya ranch among herds of buffalo, giraffe and zebras. A few days ago he inadvertently came within 20 feet of an elephant and the both of them pretended not to see each other. He says he enjoys highland Kenya for its open spaces and endless horizons, the sense of freedom which, he points out, cannot be found in a row of English houses.

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