Up early for first breakfast at 6. Well some of us where and some still had there iPad on UK time. Once completed bowl of porridge into the Landrover for a 6:30AM safari around the reserve. First lesson, it may be hot during the day, very hot, however its very cold in the morning. At least we had shirts on, our little San Guide had only animal skin on and was shivering. First encounter was with a Lion, this was a very impressive beast and was sat watching anoth...

Your heroes made it to Namibia. Usual 2 hour flight and then 1 and 1/2 queue for immigration but 19 hours after leaping into the air at Heathrow we made it into the outside world in Africa. Boy it was hot. The flight and journey was all relatively uneventful with only one moment when I thought MR Barker had been swapped for a ringer. Sat in Johannesburg airport waiting for our connection with the flight time rapidly approaching MR Barker decided to order a secon...

Made it Africa but still not ventured out of the airport. Waiting for connection to Namibia. Still on original underware.

Made to lounge. It was tough but we climbed the 4 escalators and made it into the lounge. Now relaxing with a glass of wine and a curry. Hey ho it’s tough but merry life of an explorer.