Nic's turn… We have spent the last week relaxing in various different locations. We stayed in Nkhata Bay where we took a boat trip to a beach and swam in the lake; Bua River where we went on a short morning trek with an armed guard (apparently he only ever had to fire his gun into the air to scare elephants - we didn't see the gun in action or any elephants) and had sundowners on a river bank whilst watching crocodiles catch and then fight over a huge fish (pi...

Richard writes… We have had two hard days of travelling, spending time on buses and motorbikes, but mostly Malawian minibuses. These things are tough work. The highlight was definitely the half hour or so for which our 12-seater bus contained 20 adults, two small children, a builder's materials-style bag full of dried fish, some more bags of maize, seemingly about a mile of bamboo fence (coiled up), both of our backpacks, and a chicken. The sad thing is that w...