We have been back from Africa now for some months and still wish we were over there exploring more of that fabulous continent. What an experience the whole trip was. In future trips though, we may concentrate on particular areas and see all the things we missed on the 4 month odessy. Thank you everyone for your lovely comments about the blog on this website - and about my writing and the photographs. I enjoyed the writing and may even turn the adventure into ...

Homeward Bound At last, time to head home. This has been an amazing trip and it is hard to believe we have actually done it! There have been some bad times. The worst, of course, was losing our cameras, computer and passports in Arusha, Tanzania. All that, though, could be replaced except our photos - even though we backed them all up carefully, the thieves took all the accessories including every copy of every photo we had. And there were the continu...

<!-- @page { size: 21cm 29.7cm; margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> Cape Town At last, our destination! But not everything goes smoothly - this IS still Africa. Our car was fixed though and we could drive the last leg into the city. The slow trip in was caused by a truck accident blocking the road - so South Africa was no different to all the other countries where we had seen truck accident after truck accident! And then the hotel...

<!-- @page { size: 21cm 29.7cm; margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> Stellenbosch Our accommodation place in Stellenbosch was called the Stumble Inn, actually a backpackers, but with a small back garden we could pitch our tents in. The town is a University town and with all the students has a terrific pub scene and night life. We ate at De Akker, the third oldest pub in South Africa - the food was nothing to write home about but a gr...

<!-- @page { size: 21cm 29.7cm; margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> On into South Africa It's hard to believe but here we are travelling into the 12th and last country on this trip. Four months is nearly up and the end point, Cape Town, seems just down the road. Border formalities were quick and painless, both leaving Namibia and entering South Africa, though we did have to have a small strip of nondescript paper stamped and signed ...