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...

Morning! It's just taken us 17 mins to get to this page on the internet which probably explains why uploading photos is nearly inpossible! It may be because the technology is very dated, or it may be that we are getting charged 15 Rand per quarter of an hour! Anyway, we have passed back through the Swazi border into South Africa and are staying at a smallish place called Bushlands, slightly inland, in the middle of what can only be described as a picturesque s...

Hiya!!! Just got back from our 2 night safari which was amazing! We saw 4 of 'the big 5' but the guides don't like talking about the 'big 5' as it's obviously just a commercialized thing. Anyway we saw: Lion, Buffalo, Elephant and Rhino (that's the 4) but also saw giraffe, zebra, hippo, crocodile, wilderbeast, warthog, monkey, and on our way out of the park this morning, we were so lucky to see 2 cheetas. They were so close to us, lying in the road that we had t...