Hi Africa fans! I have some sad news for you.... The drive is over, finished, kaput. I am writing this postcard from my computer at home in Kent having left Henry for the first time in over 4 months. Henry is set to fly home this evening after arranging for somewhere to stash the car. I have just read a very amusing email that Henry sent out and thought that as I could never live up to his comical flair, I would lift it for the content of this final postcard. H...

Just a quick note to say we finally dragged ourselves away from Cape Town and are now en route to Joburgg in order to fly home. Probably our last stop before there will be Durban when we will give you a final fairwell postcard. Over and out Alastair and Henry

Dear fans, WE HAVE MADE IT! This morning to announce our arrival in true adventurer style we climbed Table Mountain in time for sunrise and made a visit into central Cape Town. It has been an incredible 4 months, we have seen and done some trully amazing things and have had our fair share of challenges to overcome. Thank you for keeping up with our progress and more importantly thank you to all those that have so generously donated to Tusk. Having seen some of...

Well, apologies once again for the lack of photos. Despite being in one of the most civilised towns yet that is more like the East coast of the US than Africa, the internet is shocking or at least uploading photos is shocking. Anyway, below you will find some amusement as Henry takes the postcard reins and wittily informs you of recent events. We are certainly making the most of the last part of the trip before the car finally breaks completely! We have recen...

Well chaps and chappesses, I apologise for not updating this more, but we have actually beeen quite busy. We have been at the Africat Foundation and on arrival immediately had to go and help dart a leopard that had escaped, which was one of the highlights of the trip. After that nothing we did at Africat was going to be exciting and Dave made sure of that. I think he found it amusing seeing how tedious the jobs he gave us could be, we started off repairing punct...