hello faithful readers, and welcome to the nick in africa blog. knowing me this will be my first and last posting, but ohh well, here goes. i arrived in joburg safe and sound after a fairly uneventful flight (aside from almost missing my connecting flight in dc thanks to really slow airport shuttles). spend a night at my friends place in joburg and then flew on to swaziland. met up with my friend from childhood Tao here and then the real holiday could begin. it's been good to catch up with tao. i can't say it's like i never left, but we certainly get on really well now too. after supper at his parents (beautiful) place we got ready to head up and visit his brother, who works at a private game reserve in south africa.
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