watch this space

Just a quick note to let you know that I'm alive and well, just been out of contact with civilization for a while. There's loads of stories to be shared and photos too, if I can ever convince another internet cafe to let me plug in my camera. It seems that so far only Zimbabwe was a fan of that.

Short version? We spent four days canoeing down the Zambezi River, flew to Cape Town where we spent a night with our friend Muray's parents and are now up the coast in George hanging out with another old Mercy Ships friend. We're about to go on some sort of cave adventure in Cango Caves. I don't know if this is really a good idea, because did you know I'm absolutely, terribly claustrophobic?

Yeah. This is probably the first time I've been properly scared on this trip, and I've crawled on hands and knees through the grass to within thirty metres of where two huge hippos were fighting. But that's a story for another day...

Edited to add:

I've gone back to catch up on some stories. They're posted in a bit more of a chronological order, so they're showing up below this one. I'm not sure what will be happening for those of you who have me in a reader, since I'm all over the place. It might be worth just clicking through to make sure you're not missing anything. I'm also going to be going back through old entires over the next few days and posting photos, since the place we're staying right now has free internet. Stay tuned!