Wow! Lots of emotions and feelings regarding South Africa, or the little that we have seen of it already. We left Pretoria this morning at 9.30am, having to drive back to Johannesburg to begin the journey to Durban. Johannesburg is a powerhouse. What little we saw of it, it’s an…
We arrived in South Africa in the very early hours of this morning. Johannesburg airport was deserted at this time, so we were through immigration and reclaimed our baggage pretty quickly. Adam had booked a rental car and I had booked us a hotel, not far from the airport. Finding…
It’s 8.30pm Togo time and we are in darkness winging our way to Johannesburg. We’re on a Asky 737 flight. An hour ago we spent 40min on the tarmac in Kinshasa (capital of Republic of Congo) refueling, dropping off the majority of passengers and taking on some new. Niger River…
The most important thing I have learned since we have been in West Africa, is that to live here you need to have patience. An abundant supply of it. Today, the most immense amount of patience has been required. We have spent the entire day from 0800 this morning until…
To take my mind off the dreaded waiting I found a book I had loaded onto our Mac while in the UK. It’s called “The Long Walk”. Written in 1956. You may be familiar with the title or some part of the story, as I was. The story of allegedly…
Sadly there is nothing new to report today. We are in limbo. Just waiting. Will the container turn up tomorrow and will the vehicles be loaded??? Views: 64
So, the rain returned during the night. There is more forecast over then next couple of days, but nothing too drastic. It’s only taken us three weeks to sort out the temperature in our hotel room or cabin. The aircon has been going flat out but we are learning to…
I was awake by 5am this morning. As it got light I watched one of our two resident lizards running around the walls. It’s about 3 or 4 inches long. I still work in inches, which makes Dennis laugh. Anyway, about 10cms, he says. We have a second even smaller…
We were expecting rain during the night. From the few marks in the sand, there was a very light shower. Fortunately not enough to cause the bog holes in the hotel road to expand. The hot sun has nearly dried them up. As Jen mentioned yesterday, at 8am we were…
Today we have made progress, although at times it was agonisingly slow. We had a patient this morning. We ate in the restaurant last night. Adam had a stew, of sorts, with rice and we had fish. Adam was very sick soon after and during the night. Obviously food poisoning.…