So after 19 days in a truck with 21 other people, we made it to Cape Town. We turned up to find dense fog and drizzle. It felt like home. The last few days of the tour were fairly eventful. The sandboarding was frankly terrifying, although quite good once you reached the bottom of the dune. In typical fashion, I went over a "jump" (ridge of sand an inch high) on the last dune, battered my pathetic hand and rebroke the bone (5th metacarpal on the left hand for anyone who is interested, which I doubt). Staying in a tent, getting [View Full Entry]

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Sitting in an internet cafe in Swakopmund, a town on the Namibian coast. The music in here is appalling. At the moment we have a bizarre version of Bridge Over Troubled Water which actually sounds like it's being sung underwater. Namibia is a strange place. There's not much more to add. It's an old German colony and some of the women dress like 19th century German women. Full on outfits with hooped skirts and massive hats. They're not stupid though - they charge tourists money to take photos of hem. I managed a quick photo of one woman from inside our [View Full Entry]

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It's only been 7 days, yet I'm carrying on like one of those people who live in jungles for years and then turn up asking if the Nazis won. We've basically been living in a desert for the past week, where the people live in actual mud hut style houses and there are very few facilities. Suddenly we're in Windhoek, the capital of Namibia and the fact they have actual buildings made from concrete (with windows and doors), cars, traffic lights, internet cafes and a KFC makes me feel slightly dizzy. I can barely contain myself - as soon as I'm [View Full Entry]

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So we are now in Livingstone, so-called after David the Scottish guy. There's a statue of him and everything. We went to Victoria Falls yesterday which was amazing - it's one of the 7 natural wonders of the world, apparently (I'm so going to win pub quizzes and trivial pursuit when I get back). You get soaked when walking across a bridge so Ross and I donned our "emergency ponchos" which made us look like demented American tourists. We didn't get wet though, so it didn't matter. I don't think I can really describe the Falls here - when I finally [View Full Entry]

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So we finally arrived in Lusaka after delayed flights and me almost being detained by security at Glasgow airport (managed to have a pair of scissors in my hand luggage). We passed through absurdly laid back security in Lusaka airport (people actually running towards planes to meet family members) into beautiful sunshine with a gospel choir singing. All very stereotypical but nice nonetheless. Yesterday passed in a haze of tiredness - we looked round some shops after checking into our hostel. Our room comprises a corrugated iron roof and what appears to be walls made of some form of straw. It's [View Full Entry]

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I'm really just doing this to make sure it's working. If you can see this, then it's working. [View Full Entry]

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