Zanzibar has definitely made my list of Top 5 Tropical Islands to Get Stranded On. It’s stunning. It’s a lot like Mauritius in terms of its physical beauty but way more interesting with Stone Town, the spice trade, lots of history, friendly people and bustle. We took the Kilimanjaro ferry…

Moshi and Kilimanjaro were pretty much a blur for me. We left Dar es Salaam and embarked upon a painfully long 10 hour drive up to Moshi in Northern Tanzania and by the time we arrived I (Chris) was really sick with a cold/flu and spent the next two days…

I was going to the car carrying a Fanta pineapple and two Kit-Kats and all of a sudden a big baboon (or a bachelor boy) grabbed my hip and shook me. I kicked it and swore at it and then a game ranger chased it away. The End. I was…

Rushing backwards and forth. Packing, unpacking, packing, unpacking, setting off and stopping. It’s fun. We’ve visited Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Tanzania. We also went to the island of Zanzibar. My favourite thing we’ve done is go into the Ngorongora Crater because we saw so many animals. We only needed…

We’re in Malawi, famous for celebrity adoptions, an HIV/AIDS pandemic, potentially illegal flatulating and its $161 per capita GNP (a mere $65,441 behind Luxembourg). That Malawi is not famous for much else is not terribly surprising. It is really underdeveloped – beautiful, but really underdeveloped. The big tourism draw is…

Hugo: Today I was snorkelling in the Indian Ocean with wild dolphins. One came so close that when I was doing doggy paddle on the surface I had to lift my hands up and do breast stroke. And then it leapt out of the water right next to my arm.…

*Warning: this blog entry contains evidence that Fiona and I do not have the flawlessly perfect marriage you might have imagined 😉 ——- I haven’t blogged in a bit… We’ve been… err… busy. After our few days in Nkhata Bay in northern Malawi, we headed to the southern end of…

We are now into our last week of the trip. Somewhat sad. Maybe a little relieved. Massively grateful to have had the opportunity to explore part of such a beautiful continent – and to do it with our wide-eyed and curious kids. We are now in Addo Elephant National Park,…