Next stop, Chobe National Park in Bostwana — our fourth African country. (I don’t count Morocco as being in Africa; it’s just a weird island all by itself.) We knew that getting around Botswana without our own transport was going to be difficult. In fact, getting to Chobe NP from Livingstone, Zambia, would involve five […]

In the UK, we have many different detergents for many different uses. For us, we choose a soap on purpose and frangrance. For ourselves, a tea-tree cleansing soap for our faces, a sea-mineral spa-gel for bath and shower, a colour and hair-type matched shampoo for our noggins, an anti-bacterial handwash and perhaps even a exfoliating […]

As I have mentioned previously, communications have really sucked in the southern African countries that we’ve visited so far. It’s by far the worst in Zambia though. We’ve been here nearly two weeks and have not been able to make or take a call on our Zambian mobile phone SIM card. The network has been […]