Up early, rusks, coffee and a quick Game drive that amounted to nothing exciting. Heading north to Francistown a place we visited last time round and reminisce about getting supplies for crossing into Zimbabwe and the epic football stadium and 100s of 1000s supporters we had to navigate through.No time for stopping as on a mission to get to our home for the night. 6hr drive, roads quiet so could stick to 120 mph but the roads seem to have some pretty deep pothole...

Stockpiled with a large breakfast we hit the road. It may seem stupid but one of my big regrets from last time was never stopping roadside to pick up a large bag of avocados usually on the outskirts of towns where there are loads of stalls run by locals selling avocado, oranges, nuts. This time we stopped I'm thrilled to have my source of avocados my regret now has been dealt with. It seemed to take forever the 5hrs to reach the boarder of Botswana. Easy process ...

A year later than planned due to a global pandemic, with a new strain taking its toll on people, we manged to navigate not getting COVID in the run up to the most important flight of the year. Not quite out of the woods, the next hurdle and who would predict it…….British weather decides to have a record breaking 2 day mini heatwave causing chaos to fire services, bucking train lines causing mass train cancelations and to top it off there's a fuel s...

Well, it is finally time to venture back to Africa as a family. I was always cognizant when I took my sabbatical in 2015 to travel the world that the kids might not fully remember the experience when they were older, so I had always hoped that I would get the chance to do a mini adventure with the kids when they were older. Now in 2002 we finally have the chance to do this, I didn't want to take another year off as I feel it would be adversely affected their educ...

Coming Home, Tips and Tricks We have returned back from our trip and I thought I would write up some tips based on our experiences, there is so much information around travelling already so I will focus on the family elements. Like most things in life what works for one may not work for others and this should just be one element in research in finding your own path and travel style. Before you go How long should you go for? There are so many determining facto...