Hope everyone had a great Christmas and I wish you all a very happy new year!!! It has been soooo wierd for me and Alex. We woke up on Christmas morning- lost. We didn't know what to do with ourselves. So, we got up really early; put on our Christmas jumpers and knitted balaclavas and exchanged gifts with each other by the Christmas tree - oh, and then we sang Christmas songs by the piano. Narrrr, not really, we stayed in bed and cried! Thinkin about how go...

Swokupmund in Namibia is an amazing place - it's a blend of Dutch, German, English and African architecture and culture right by the Atlantic and just next to the Namib desert. We stayed there for a few days at 'The Dunes' backpackers hostel and our hosts were Sharron and (lets call him - swinger), I forget his name - Cos I'll tell thi what - THEY WERE SWINGERS! Don't get me wrong, they were nice and polite enough and were really helpful if we...

no, no, no, NO, NO, NO, I've changed my MAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRGH!!!!!!, you BastAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRD!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGH!!!!!!!!!!!!! HOLD ON TO ME!!!!! - Was pretty much what I was saying as I jumped out of the plane to do my sky dive! I've lost track of what day it is now but I was supposed to do the jump on - say Monday, then it was canceled until the following day which gave me one more night to worry about it. So after a night of col...

We arrived in Namibia a few days ago and spent our first afternoon in a Cheetah park where they rescue Cheetahs and rehabilitate them, that was good to see - I like Cheetahs but these won't be released back in to the wild which is a shame. Our campsite for the first two days was in the middle of Etosha national park, so we had another game drive through the plains and after four and a bit weeks me and Alex were a bit game drived out! The new guys wanted to st...

Wow, Botswana has been amazing! To be honest, the first day was a bit strange as we said goodbye to most of the people we were travelling with - they finish earlier than us on a different route. We met up with our new group on the same day in Livingstone, Zambia before we set off in to Botswana. About five minutes after meeting our new fellow travellers me and Alex looked at each other and said 'Let's get hammered'. Take from that what you will - our ...