We slept until 7am and were a tad jaded after our travels and night drive - today was an all day drive called the heritage tour which took us through part of the ecosystem to Cape Vidal and back. We were joined by a French couple and their 5 year old son who were on holiday from their secondment to Mayotte (an island in the Comoros, just off the South African coast, who had voted to stay French and were now a department of France) Isimangaliso is the renamed gr...

We left Cambridge at 1300 in a Virgin chauffeured car - as I was using my hard earnt miles for the flight I thought it would be good to also use some on a door to terminal experience thereby avoiding having to lug our bags on and off the train! After a hurriedly arranged meeting with a reporter friend, we agreed to rendezvous at the Virgin check in desks; this enabled us to have a chat over a coffee, before John and I headed off for a late late lunch in the Virgi...

We left London Heathrow on the Friday 15/6/12 night flight to Johannesburg arriving early Saturday morning. It was noticeably cool but sunny. We looked for the driver from African Moon guest house but only saw a man walking around with an interesting sign saying Jully Speace. When I had got some rand from the ATM we decided to ask if he was waiting for us ---and yes he was!! We arrived at the guest house about 10-15 minutes later and had breakfast while we waited...