17/12/2010 A terrible mozzy-infested sleep left us with bites and absolutely caning from the three days of walking. We travelled back to Blantyre where we prepared for crossing the border to Mozambique, changing kwacha for mozam meticals. We met a British guy from the Lake District and spent the day with him, endulging in some kebab and chips of a road-side stool for less than a squid. Ended up playing some cards whilst admiring the fruit bats flying up above a...

14/12/2010 Woken up at half six by some half blind guy trying to sell us pots and pans for our hike up Mount Mulanje. Jack bartered leaving it at 200 k (like 70p). But guy refused so we took our business elsewhere. Left our rucksacks at a better lookinh hotel before hopping onto a bicycle taxi into Chitikale for some tourist information. Jack bought his rider a coke and 50k as he felt sorry as the guy tried extra hard pumping his legs trying to get Jack up the ...

13/12 Jack and I were joined by our older SAF friend Claudias to town Net wasn't good enough to upload photos, god knows when I'm going to be able to do them. Lunch was a big fat Hungarian sausage hot dog.Went shopping for essentials that included toothpaste, crisps and milk. Packed our bags and left for Mulanje. Two squid for a two-and-a-half hour ride to Mulanje via Limbe and loads of other small villages. Indulged in a banana muffin sold by one of the passer...

Talked more to the Danish guy at Doogalls and turns out he has worked on game reserves, national parks and at the exact same place we went shark diving in SA called Gansbaai. He was telling us about his job characterising the animals, taking photos of fins etc, was very interesting. Turns out aswell that apparently the biggest great whites ever caught were in Cyprus measuring 6 metres in length and weighing 2 and a half tonnes! They also tagged them in SA and fou...

11-12-2010 I packed my stuff and went back to Gecko to wake Jack up. I screamed in his ear like a Lieutenant only to discover that there were other people in the dorm I woke up as well as him! Oops....Shared a taxi from Cape Mac to Blantyre with the Norwegians, saving us an unbareable bus journey and costing only a shade more. Was a 4/5 hour journey but reasonably comfortable and the only complaint I had other than a sore ass was the fact that the driver had a...