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We’ve had no wifi for 2 weeks so it’s been difficult to stay in touch. However, it’s been quite an eventful period all in all. Pals Judith & Tamsin arrived in Livingstone after a 15-hour delay to their flight from … Continue reading
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Lake Malawi is sometimes know as The Calendar Lake’. It’s huge: around 356 miles long and 52 miles wide. From up on the Nyika Plateau you can see across to the mountains of Tanzania and Mozambique. At the lake shore … Continue reading
I couldn’t get over how good the road was down through the centre of Tanzania. On our original entry, from Mbeya to Dar Es Salam it was appalling. Maybe I’d have to take back all my curses at Tanzanian roads … Continue reading
We’ve been pretty much stranded at Mwanza Yacht Club. The view may look like an expensive, shabby-chic area of the South of France… …but when you look closely, these guys aren’t paying $2m+ for some trendy old hillside cottage… Had … Continue reading
Leaving Rwanda we drove a scenic, beautifully tarred, 120km road to the Rusumo Falls border with Tanzania. Speed limits here are very low – typically 40kph and 60kph on occasional roads, so it’s still a 3 hour drive. We got … Continue reading
There’s nowhere to camp in Kigali, Rwanda. Actually, there’s probably only a handful of places in the whole country. We ended up with the rooftent pitched on the driveway of a B&B in the city that advertises camping (called TR … Continue reading
It was time to move on from Kasese. Either side of flying home for Charlie’s wedding, we had been in Kasese District for about 5 months and leaving was a bit of a wrench. Having had so much warm hospitality … Continue reading
Although we’ve only had it 6 years, our Land Rover is now almost 20 years old. Apart from a few well documented repairs while we’ve been in Africa, it’s in what could (perhaps generously) be called ‘very original condition’. All … Continue reading
There’s a difference between ‘need’ and ‘want’. Families may want a television, but they need efficient, environmentally sound, faster, cheaper, less health-damaging ways of cooking (which may take up around 6 hours of the typical day). Women here don’t mind … Continue reading
Gareth & Kirsty arrived briefly at Karen Camp, Nairobi and it was good to see them again. They’d been hanging around trying to get Visas for Ethiopia and had finally got a flat ‘NO!” The same answer they got in … Continue reading