Early start to the day today - up at 7:30 to go to yoga! We've found a really great studio just round the corner from where we live. Gary & Cythia Fort run it in their house - they've converted the whole bottom floor, and it looks out onto beautiful gardens - really peaceful, and a brilliant way to start the day. So got back to the apartment for breakfast, and then had to go and be fingerprinted! The access to the block is completely biometric, with the lad...

Slowly getting into the swing of things! After polishing off a couple of bottles of Boschendal Lanoy with Dad last night, our resolution to detox was suffering from near-terminal neglect. So we woke up late and decided to get down to the Yoga Studio in the City Centre. We did a strange class - heated room, but not Bikram. They called it Vinyasa Flow yoga, and it was HARD! Only an hour, but some of the Utkatasana sequences were rough. Troy was bemoaning the run-...

Nice quiet day today - woke up late with the trains going past and ambled out to do some leisurely shopping. All the things that we'd forgotten in London - like phone & camera chargers either accidently packed in storage, or left in the hotel! One highlight of the day was the drive to drop Carol off at work, as we're borrowing her car. A conversation on the radio brought home to me how different South Africa is from Europe. DJ : "This the breakfast show...

Well here we are... Saturday was manic - late lunch with friends a match at Chelsea football club meant our cab took an hour longer than usual. Got to the airport 90 min before take-off, which luckily meant that we were rushed past the queues of people lining up for the BAA strip search experience. Quite a result really! 12 hours later (during time which we realised the powerful contraceptive effect of sitting next to other peoples' 2-3 year old children) we t...

Well the reality is starting to sink in. Only a week to go until we disappear off around the world. Tickets, passports (the Greeks among you will know how painful organising those can be!), house sale completes on Tuesday - so barring any last minute problems we should be winging our way to Cape Town on the night of the 8th...so watch this space. Had some impromptu drinks last night - not sure what kind of party it was, maybe a 'house-cooling'? The weather was f...