Up at 05:30 meet our Truck and our new Travelling "Family" at 06:30. Our new family consisted of - 2 Brits(us), 3 Aussies, 3 Danes, 2 Polish Canadians,1 Dutch, 1 German Plus 3 crew - 2 Zimbabweans and 1 South African (Afrikaans) ……. Not forgetting a truck called "Sledge" Mostly the "Family" were in their fifties, the exceptions being The Danes who were 19,20 and 21 ….. They must have been horrified to find they were travelling with the "cast of Coco...

Arrived in Capetown in the late evening. As we had been here a number of times before, we decided to stay "out of town" in Camps Bay. Our apartment was located in the shadow of Table Mountain and the Twelve Apostles but only about 100 yards from the beach and a large selection of bars and restaurants' …… Where better to spend a week before the main trek begins. The first bar on the front advertised "Happy Hour" with cocktails at half price …. We stoppe...

Dubai, we had been here before and it was just a 3 day stopover but we bought "daysaver" metro tickets and determined to get our money's worth we travelled miles all over the city and beyond the normal tourist points we knew from before. On day one, I encountered the most annoying person ever, who sat next to me for 20 stations, fell asleep on my shoulder and snored the entire distance into my left ear. There must be some kind of "annoyance" competition on t...