I felt I was really getting into the rhythm of this safari stuff – awake at 5am, put on one’s sludge coloured clothing, eat porridge (I really don’t like porridge) and into the jeep, plug in anything that needed to change in the USB charging points (there were two per seat, and I was pleased…

I woke up this morning. It was warm, it was dry, I had my first dry toilet experience – from here on I was having an amazing time, it was all magical etc. My cold also cleared up today (as I ran out of paracetamol so good timing there). Oh and an aside about drugs,…

An earlier start today, as today we would be travelling fom our current camp to Kwai concession. On transfer days we wake-up at 5am and aim to be fully packed with our bags outside by 5.30am to give the team time to break camp, travel to the next location, rebuild the camp and prepare for…

Well, this is something new. In full disclosure, I am writing this on my sofa in my flat catching up on Strictly Come Dancing. However, I made notes and have many, many photos so let us all pretend that I wrote this in real time. So, I managed to survive my first night in a…

Ah, the delights of 9 hours sleep. I awoke feeling refreshed and ready to tackle the world, or at least to actually start the holiday properly. Today we are flying from Maun (the huge civilisation/second largest village in Botswana) to we thought, somewhere in the Moremi Game Reserve. However, we found out later that because…

Yes, I am still referring to this as being a post about Botswana, although I am still not in Botswana. I am starting this next to the gate in Heathrow, and I can see a plane – always a good sign! As it is an overnight flight to South Africa,  I did a work from…

It has been so long since my last holiday. It has been all of 9 weeks. Therefore, time for another one! Yes, technically I did have a long weekend in Edinburgh, but that is not a “holiday” that is a long weekend and as I was performing with my choir one could even go so…