So we have been in Johannesburg for 3 days now, Geoff drove us here from Finsbury on Christmas Eve, it’s been absolutely lovely. Carol and the dogs Thandi and Monty were here to greet us. The dogs being a young Bull Terrier about 8 months old and a huge Newfoundland pedigree cross breed (about the size of Megan). We have had lots of fun with these two – Thandi took a special liking to Danny. We spent Christmas Eve at a friend of Geoff and Carols, where we h...

Hi all. So we met Dave’s uncle Geoff in Lydenburg and then headed up to his trout farm in a place called Finsbury, around 30km from Lydenburg. It is a stunning setting set in a green valley with rivers flowing over the pathways and roads. Geoff's house is set on top of a hill surrounded by mountains and with deer on the verges and a beautiful decking to sit down on drink some wine and generally chill out from the 25 days of camping we have just done. The ho...

So it was onto the Kruger National Park. We were staying at a lovely little Game Lodge called Ikley Game Lodge – where the owners and setting was actually fantastic. It was a 5am start for our game drive but it didn’t really matter as we had upgraded Chalets and were all content with a 9pm bedtime. No more camping - Megan and Meredith were so happy. All of us were really excited to see what the Kruger had to offer, especially after the Chobe and Etosha had ...

Another long drive today took us to the Botswana South Africa Border and to be honest I wouldn’t have written about this but for 2 reasons. 1) Fulham 3 Manchester United 0 – watched through the glory of Botswana TV. 2) The Lightning Storm at 1am - which meant Megan, had to stay in the tent to keep it from blowing away and yours truly was running around in his boxers trying to stop Danny’s tent flying away. Also stopping our tent from drowning in a lake of...

So it was off from Livingstone back to Botswana. I have to say that the Angel pool at the top of Victoria Falls is a must - absolutely brilliant. Jumping 10 ft into a pool at the edge of the world’s largest falls. Crazy hey :-) Anyhow the trip to Elephant Sands came with a new group - all quite nice. Another game drive was actually into the wild bush where no tourists go. As the name suggests there were lots of Elephants and lots of sand. Megan has developed...