Day 7 End of the Kruger for now - although it was hard to stop looking for things out of the corner of my eye as I drove back towards Polokwane to pick Peter up from the airport - he had been chatting to Mick McCarthy about the French & England camp’s respective problems on the way up apparently!!!! Saw Bafana Bafana put up a brave fight (which in reality was what most of the SA fans wanted/ hoped for) in a lively bar near the B&B. Then off to the Arg v Gre game. We both agreed we wanted Argentina to win- which was good as we ended up in the middle of a load of their fans - The game wasn’t much better than the Mex v Fra game (but we were in row ... read more

Day 5 Up early again and saw loads more animals, including briefly a lion carrying a carcass behind a bush - but the highlight was in the afternoon when I booked myself in for a bush walk; fortunately I was the only one who had booked, so I got my own 3 hour walk in the bush with 2 rangers (with rifles). It was great to be out of the car and looking around and learning about the animals and they tracked some buffalo first on some cliffs, but then went round and ‘met’ them and got close enough to get the adrenalin pumping - before some bird flew up out of the grass and spooked them so they ran off - wooses ... read more

Day 3 Today was mainly a travel day - although the 2nd part of it was through the Kruger to my (pleasantly less cold) accommodation - although there cannot be many journeys that you see a couple of elephant, a few giraffe, a zebra and the back end of a lion, and the timing couldn’t have been better as I was listening to the Germany match on the radio and no sooner had I seen my 1st elephant then Germany missed a penalty. - happy days ;-) Settled down to watch the England game in the camp Boma - and wished I hadn’t bothered … but at least it wasn’t freezing!!!!! ... read more

Day 1 Anyway - flight was fine and had a nice day with Grace and Theo in J’burg. It was a Bank Holiday and we took the new Gautrain (the 1st high speed train in Africa no less) - that had been only open a couple days, to Sandton - a posh shopping area, where almost everyone was wearing gold and green in anticipation for Bafana Bafana’s match that evening. Then it was time to head North to somewhere called Rooiberg - what turned out to be a one street Afrikaner holiday resort. The owner of the pub that I found that was showing the game, even took me to my picture as they “didn’t get many foreigners in there” !!!!!! watching soccer was clearly a new experience to a lot of them and whilst most ... read more