Just a quick blog to let you all know that we have changed our flights and are now flying to Oz next Saturday. With the situation being as it is with Gap Sports, we didn't feel we wanted to stay in SA longer than we have so we've got just over a week to finish the Garden Route then fly to Oz. Laura's final dive got cancelled today so, hopefully, she will complete her PADI tomorrow..............we then intend to get the Baz Bus on Saturday morning. The footy lo...

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...