Well hello from the beach.It's great here! We're on Zanzibar Is off the Tanzania coast. What a comparison to the misty green mountains of Rwanda! We had a shortish flight to Dar Es Salaam over Arusha and Mt Kilimanjaro which was exciting, then a lengthy wait, with xraying of our stuff on arrival, then into transit, where it was done again, then again going into the gate area! A b----y pain as Courtney can't be scanned so it takes much explanation to get her aro...

Hello everyone from the exhausted duo. And as for the sore feet! Courtney is shuffling like a 90 yr old. Well, I didn't get to the summit, abandoning the climb once I got to the crater rim 100 metres below the summit which was still nearly a 2 hr walk along the rim. I was just so tired after climbing since midnight and wanted to go to bed!! And it was so cold!! Way below zero. You can read about the cold while sitting at home but until in it you just don't re...

Well, here we are in the Serengeti, seeing all the animals we watch on TV- giraffes, elephants,zebras, cheetahs, leopards, lions etc. it's fabulous, and we are staying in a luxury ensuited tent too which isn't half bad. I've learnt all sorts of facts, most of which I will promptly forget, but the stuff about elephants having a 25 kg penis and producing 5L sperm were breathtaking. It's not too warm but not freezing. We had a long exhausting trip to get to Tanza...