Well I thought it would be a good idea to try the site out before we actually leave for Malawi in 6 days time. There are seven ladies (all 40+, some +++!) all travelling to Embangweni in the north of Malawi. We leave Edinburgh at 5pm on Monday 4 April and arrive in Lilongwe around lunchtime next day. Our wrinkles will no doubt be prominent after a sleepless overnight flight from Heathrow to Addis Ababa! A three hour wait in Bole airport then onward to Lilongwe, the capital of Malawi. A quick overnight stop there where we will purchase supplies and, importantly mosquito nets for the school dormitories and the hospital, and then a four hour journey, by land, on some of the worst roads ever, to Embangweni. For four of the ladies this is there
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