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...

The road home and leaving the white elephant We set off from Nxai pan a little deflated knowing our time is nearly at an end, we drive to the South African border post only stopping at Francistown for a car wash, using the same one where the owner offered us football match tickets a few months ago. We decided to break our journey to Johannesburg and stay on the border on the Botswana side. We book a chalet for 2 nights and empty out the truck, we manage to sell ...

Garden Route and Cape Town After a brief stop in Jo'Burg we start the long journey south it will take 2 days of long driving to get to the Garden Route, the kids reside themselves to the fact that they will be in a car for 2 days and we expect the odd augment in the back, they handle the journey well, they played top trumps and wrote in their books mostly. We look at the map and a halfway point looks to be Bloemfontein, being a Tolkien fan I knew this is where J...

Sleeping with the hippos in Kruger, South Africa Overnight flights are not the best if you have things to do the next day, you don't get much sleep especially when the mass of Chinese passengers on the flight decide to stay awake talking, overall we found the Chinese very cold and didn't seem to consider others around them, we were definitely glad to be leaving Hong Kong. The flight landed at 7am in Johannesburg and we took a taxi straight to the hotel which I h...