Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all! We have been in Oz for 2 weeks now and are only just getting over the jet lag. We spent 4 days in Sydney, relaxing in the botanical gardens over-looking the Opera House and Harbour Bridge. Home to hundreds of large fruit bats who were roosting noisily in the trees above our heads. Cool! We stayed in the celubrious area called Kings Cross and had the company of 4 transexual prostitutes plying their trade outside our bed...

Last time Pete wrote I believe we were mid way through Namibia and about to enter the adventure town of Swakopmund. On the way we visited an area called Cape Cross where there is the most amazingly large seal colony. We were there at a particularly gruesome time as baby pups were being born quite literally before our very eyes. The ensuing scuffle for babies, including fights where the unfortunate pups were being thrown around and used like a tug of war rope, was...

Hi all, (sorry for any confusion, for some unknown reason the huge great country that is Namibia is not on the list of options on this website, hence it's now under Botswana.) We have now made it into Namibia.......just. Our truck broke down yesterday on the outskirts of Etosha NP. We had to limp out of the park so we could get out of the vehicle to undertake maintenance. Finally made it to the nearest town where the alternater fell off on the garage forecourt ...

Hello again. We are currently in Botswana about to leave after having to wait for one of our number to recover from Malaria in hospital for a week. For those who have remained healthy it has been a jam packed few weeks. We have waled - literally- with lions, that was a truly amazing experience. It was at Antelope Park in Zimbabwe, where they are breeding lions to reintroduce into the wild as feline AIDS is destroying th ewild population. We also swam on a n eleph...

Hi Folks, well we are actually in Malawi but for some inexplicable reason the computer fails to recognise this as a country and so I had to write Mozambique. We have a day off today as we must wait for visas to pass through Mozambique and into Zimbabwe. Good news for us as it means we have a little time to catch up on communications. Predictably therefore I have forgotten to bring the cd of photos! May have to wait until Oz now (December) when we are in one place...