Howdy. Just popped into an internet cafe to update the blog. It's now Wednesday and after much deliberation, Laura and I have quit our programme with Gap Sports. If any of you are thinking of doing a Gap Sports programme, don't bother! It's all a bit of a scam and although it was our main reason for coming to South Africa, we are not prepared to compromise our standards of safety and basic hygeine even if a bunch of 18 year olds are! So, the long and short is t...

Good afternoon. Have been in PE for a week now and although we were both quite excited to be starting our hockey placements, they've turned out to be very disappointing. We arrived at the designated Gap Sports accommodation on Saturday afternoon only to find that it used to be a disused army barracks and they are starting to decorate it for the purpose of Gap Sports coaches.....the only problem being that they haven't got that far! After continual cold showers,...

Howzit. Just arrived in Nelson Mandela Bay (otherwise known as Port Elizabeth but you can't actually say that when you're here so if you wanna not stand out like a sore thumb, it's P.E) We had a pretty long journey of about 10 hours yesterday to get here and arrived at about 10.30pm last night but having just had a walk along the seafront, is without a doubt, the nicest resort we've been to so far. It's a little Americanized but when you've been used to local s...

Ya ya. Ok. We have just left Port St John's where we probably had our most terrifying experience yet..........no, it wasn't that Laura had a whole day of not complaining about her back or her stomache, it was that we actually went on a 3 hour hike! Yes you read correctly. It wasn't that we planned on going on one......in fact, our guide told us we were going to his local village for a few beers and a game of pool but when the taxi, (cleverly disguised as an ope...

Hi ya everybody! Sorry we haven't 'blogged' for a few days but it's been a bit eventful! We travelled from Bushlands to Sodwana Bay ( a 5* PADI rated resort) with the intention of Laura getting her Open Water diver certificate but on the 2nd day she managed to lift an oxygen tank and put her back out so she had to put her feet up for a few days. Anyway, they have given us a referral so hopefully she should be able to complete it when we get down to P.E. We arri...