Hayestack

To reach Henties Bay we had to cross the Namib Desert. This is reputed to be one of the oldest in the world and I hoped our little Sirion car was tough enough to bounce its way across. This was no place to get marooned. As we approached the Atlantic coast the sky became overcast [...]

Humewood, PE
Our minibus takes us into Port Elizabeth through one of the outlying townships. This is one of the most shocking and disturbing experiences of our journey so far. It is if a gigantic bonfire had been dismantled to form a massive rabbit warren of shacks and lean-tos for people to live in. Scrap [...]

  East London
After a couple of days Willy Junior gives us a lift the short distance from Kei Mouth to East London. We have enjoyed our stay but the relief on departing was like leaving home for a second time. The feeling of independence was palpable and the world was waiting to greet us.
East London, [...]

Today we were invited for a cruise on the Kavango River. Fourteen of us, volunteers with VSO & Interteam, set out at 6.30am. It was dark when we left home but soon the stars disappeared and the orange glow on the horizon showed that it was almost daytime. We floated along in the flat bottomed [...]

Danie is an artist of extraordinary talent. He is married to Marie being therefore John and Kathleen’s son-in-law. They live together and Danie has his own studio built onto the back of the house. He has developed a unique style of creating metallic effects using ordinary paint. The results are stunning. He has recently finished [...]

 
It was about midnight and we were just slipping off to sleep when loud screams of searing pain snapped us back to reality. Someone was murdering a child outside our bedroom window. Georgina jumped up and peered out. The body was slung to the branch of a tree and was howling pitifully like an [...]

Our journey to Kisora took us on a short safari through the Queen Elizabeth National Park.We could see elephants in the distance and many water bucks, kobs, water buffalo, hippos and gibbons. But we were disappointed not to see zebras and giraffes in particular.  We were told the recent rain had sent many animals deeper [...]

Mweya Safari Lodge has been dubbed the “Sheraton in the Bush” and is a popular resort with Royalty, Presidents, Pop Stars and us. It was our only night of sheer, unadulterated luxury and we should have been ashamed of ourselves, except that we enjoyed it so much.  We could only stay one night because [...]

We are having a great time here at Biscarrosse in south west France. Myra is….