Hello everyone, Saturday the 24th Madeleine and I took the train up into the Blue Mountains to stay with the Powys family since Madz had a week off uni. It was AFL Grand Final Day... Aussie rules footy is big out here we decided to do it proper and sat eating meat pies and drinking Boags beer (from Tassie) the Sydney Swans won in a very very close match, I think there were four points in it, their first win since '72! Wentworth Falls is a beautiful village...

It was a relatively short flight from Nairobi to Jo'burgh, we flew right over Mount Kilimanjaro. The peak was poking out of the clouds and the searing blue sky behind - stunning. The only other person getting picked up to my hostel that night was a guy called Nigel who happened to be from Hobart (Tasmania) so we had good chats about Tassie and our trips in Africa on the drive into town. Annette, Andrew Holdaway's friend met me at the hostel that night and took Ni...