*That's 'slowly slowly' in Swahili, a rough equivalent of 'Manana, manana'. As you can see from the map, we're still in Africa when we should be in London. Sometimes, an extra day of holiday is a great thing, others it's less than ideal. We had been warned by Damo & Claire that the flights from Zanzibar to Nairobi sometimes take off early so we should get to the airport in plenty of time. We did just that, but it didn't really pay off. Our scheduled fligh...

We set off from Lobo Lodge at 8.30am for a quick game drive (including a last minute cheetah just by the airstrip) and arrived just in time for our flight. The documentation told us to be there an hour early which was a bit of a laugh given that the airstrip's only building was two drop toilets, and there were no staff – the plane arrived, the pilot ticked our names off a list and we got in the tiny plane. And as we rose into the sky, Godfrey was standing...

Our next and final lodge had spectacular views across the Serengeti, all of it laid out before you. It also had the hardest beds in the world and the worst soup we had experienced! The services wasn't the best on the trip either but the local troop of baboons provide early morning entertainment. If you can stay somewhere else, I would, but there aren’t many options. All the migration had left this area. However on our drive round the Water Pumb circuit, th...

Our next stop was another tented camp, this one with guards to escort you around the site after dark to protect you from lions etc. Didn't get that with Eurocamp. Bariki was the chattiest of the guards. In many countries, we might have dismissed his behavior as classic 'flirting for tips’ but Tanzanians genuinely like to chat. Godfrey talked at leangth about how amazed and confused he was when he went to Kenya and people didn’t say hello to him on t...