right...where are we up to? ok first of all let's get the important things out of the way... toni...the beard is going very strong and i'm even more determined to grow it because i now know how much you love it! john...sorry but we probably have 10,000 pictures of africa alone so we're looking at a little more than that with months to go. you're just going to have to line the beers up and pin your eyes open through the 4 hour slideshow... ok...angkor wat...

hi everyone!! Well, we successfully managed to negotiate to the Thai/cambodian border! After hearing a huge number of horror stories on the internet and worrying a lot the night before we decided to just go for it and left our lovely room in Bangkok at 5 to get to the bus terminal. Our "1st class" bus journey was relatively painless and we finally arrived at the border after catching a tuk tuk. It proceeded to rain mercilessly and we got thoroughly dre...

Hey everyone! just a quick one to say that we have now left africa and are at the end of our first day in thailand. sorry we haven't updated the blog much but we have been so busy and the internet is terrible in africa. anyway we have full itineraries for our safari so we can share them when we're back. to some africa up...it was incredible! we saw a cheetah with cubs, wild dogs, lions, leopards...everything! the pictures are brilliant. the people in a...

Hi guys, Just a quick note to say we are in Zambia! Have been through the rest of Namibia and Botswana since the last blog. Had a great time in Etosha and Chobe National Parks, seeing lots of animals!! Will try to put some more picsup but we just have so many and as you can imagine the computers are a little slow! Been to the Okavango Delta in Botswana where the only way to get around is via mokoro (basically a canoe) with our own local 'poler'. It is comple...

Hi! Not much to say about Swakopmund to be honest, just like being in Germany. I know you have all been dying find out if we managed to watch the United game and of course we did! It seems everywhere we go there are LOADS of United fans so Spence is in his element! Having a great time though and we had Oryx fillet last night, a deer that is the national meat of Namibia, so now we are basically planning to eat the national meat in every country we go to. So f...