hey all (16th June) here we go! we went and spent an hour with a himba tribe; one of the drivers from the hostels borther has adopted the tribe and has become chief. he has adopted 18 kids who are orphan or whatever and then obviously the women of the tribe have their own kids I have a couple of pics but there are SO many cultural things that I dont wanna forget I'll start with those. there are all sorts of small things about the clothing and dress...

f***ING HELL!!!! (15th June) today was not dull in the slightest – I’msitting here very tentitavely and quite uncomfortably shall we say. lets start at the beginning… we set off at 10 this morning: my first ride in Brenda (apparently all their trucks are names after dead rocks stars – don’t ask!!!). I put my bags in locker 13 – read on and make up ur mind: lucky 13 or the more common unlucky 13 – and settled my...

well first day with nomad and what a day to start on... i had a nice breakfast at dunes lodge stocking up on food resources as it were... breakfast was free there lol! english breakfast, cereal, toast, tea, juice, everything - was really nice... nomad, instead of me going there, actually agreed to come and pick me up from the lodge! so i spent a nice morning packing up my life again and watching footie highlights (wasnt that a wkd brazil croatia game!) ...

i suppose i'd better start on teh 11th. i'd packed all my luggage luggage the saturday night which was quite unbelievably efficient for me but all i'd done hand luggage wise was lay out all of it out on the table!! after all by this point it was approaching 1.00am and i knew i had an early start. i set my alarm for 6.00am on sunda ymorning as my lift was at 7.30! hoever i did "a me". i woke up and went straight back to sleep and only woke up at 10 to 7!!! i was l...