Beard Watch! Well its been a little while since I wrote last so as you can imagine growth is going well!! Dave is really starting to look like a yetti! Hair and beard are merging into one and his face is slowly disappearing! Though now we're in China I'm a little jealous as I think its keeping him warm and I'm freezing!!

Hello! We're back again, this time from the Kruger National Park! Matt and Chesa arrived on monday (with a hire car!) and we 'booked' into our mud huts for the week! Having left the foundation we decided to stay at the backpackers just 5 minutes down the road for our last week in Africa, partly swayed by the cool mud huts but also by the bar and restaurant we often frequented with the other volunteers from VMF. After a few (too many!) drinks with the VMF volunt...

Intrepid Tour of China Days 1-3 Beijing After 2 days of travelling from Joberg through Singapore to Shanghai with one night there before heading on to Beijing, and 17 hours of flights, we FINALLY arrived at our starting hotel!! China is FREEZING (-2/-3) compared to what is been like in South Africa so for the first day we frooze to death and walked around like penguins huddled together!! We were pleasently suprised (indeed!) to find ourselves staying in a very ...

Hello again! This is going to be our last blog entry from South Africa and will probably be the last one for a week or so due to a lack of internet access! Hopefully a selection of photos will be appearing on the blog in the next couple of days. Yesterday was our last working day at the foundation and luckily we were able to spend most of it with the baby orphans. They've grown loads and are twice the size they were a month ago! Sadly, Star, the premature b...

Hello again! What a night! Its definitely stormy season now! Last night we experienced the most spectacular storm we've ever seen! We had torrential rain, very loud thunder and sheet lightning that was pretty much constant all night! We're amazed that our tent stayed dry (or upright for that matter!), given that the night before the centre pole snapped in half and ripped through the top of our tent! It was a good job that Debs remembered the duck tape! We had ...