Where to begin!.... Sorry guys you’ll have to bare with me in this blog. Not only have I spent 3 hours writing this before only to have accidently deleted it but It’s also been a long road down to south Africa and its been filled with so many things that I’m struggling to keep up. Firstly let me just say this started out as a cheaper diet plan for me. I thought 50 days in Africa would sort out my over the top love for food and my backside.......I was wrong! Even in the poorer countries food doesn’t seem to be an issue as everyone grows their own. So not only have I not lost weight but I’m sure to have put an extra few lbs on because of all the flavoursome foods! Right back on ... read more

Okay where to start...... Firstly I'd like to apologise for Robs history lesson!! Lol Karen blixen museum was interesting but more so for the fact she helped to raise employment for 200 workers and gave them land. Bomas village was very interesting as they talked about the different tribes that still exist today in Africa. Many of them have many wives and the famous Masai tribe leader shares his wives with brothers and cousins!!! A man gets more wives the more cows he owns so if you relate that to western standards the more money a man has the more wives and mistresses he'll probably have to. I had to remind Robert he was not from an African tribe and so he can not have any more wives!! His response was one was bad enough!!! The ... read more

We have spent the last 5 days having a great time in Dubai. It's is well deserved after the horrendous experience of trying to get through security at Casablanca airport. It took us 1 hour to get from the train station to the airport building as we all had to shuffle through a single metal detector and xray machine. When we checked in we had to go through passport control which also took forever. Then through security again. Our plane also swapped gates randomly while queueing to get on the plane. So for future reference get to Casablanca airport 4 hours in advance to reduce all stress. Anyway, we spent the first day chilling out and having a movie marathon in the hotel to get over that trauma. On Monday we walked along Dubai Creek (a ... read more

Just a few notes about the journey so far. Generally the whole experience has been amazing. I think our anxiety and nervousness is starting to subside. We have realised that our grasp of the English language is starting to fade quickly, this blog has been a nightmare to spell for both of us. I usually am the most confident at speaking French (Grade C GCSE 15 years ago) although I do seem to speak a combination of French, English and German which is confusing for everyone involved i.e. Je voudrais two crepe, danke. Marrakech is so busy. Our first experience was when our driver from the airport tailgated everyone the whole way to the hotel. Mopeds and motorbikes snake wherever there is space. And at junctions everyone wants to get to the stop line, so you ... read more

So we've spent a couple of days in Atlas Targa 20 minutes outside the city of Marrakesh. It was a nice start as is was very commercial and settled us in to the new climate. It was all inclusive and we got to taste a range of Morocco's traditional meat tagines ( slow cooked foods in a pot called tagine). We are now ready to throw ourselves in to the morrican way of life! We booked into a Riad (guest house) called Riad Romance in the north of the cities Medina. With small winding roads and the risk of being knocked over by the bustle of people or moped's, it would have been impossible to find without the friendly morroccan that lead us down to what we thought was a dead end.... It was but thankfully ... read more