So that was that, two weeks gone in a flash, and here I am in Nairobi with probably the last blog for a while.  Before this trip, two years had passed with restrictions on travel making it impossible to visit Zambia.  Then on our final evening, as...

It’s the eve of our departure – I am so not ready to leave. The last two weeks have been wonderful in so many ways.  We woke up this morning, we already knew what the day would hold. There is always pressure to get things finished off on the last day…things that need...

There were many things that I needed to learn quickly and get used to when we lived in Zambia and one of those things was the art of waiting…waiting patiently. Not that I have mastered it, being quite an impatient, everything has to be done now, type of person. But...

Today has been somewhat hectic.  We drove to Kitwe last night to stay with very good friends from the years when we lived here, Susanna and Abdul.  Their eldest daughter, Diana, and Aiden were and still are very good friends going back to their...

It’s COVID test time again.  Helpfully the British government have no requirement for tests anymore when entering the country but because we are transiting Kenya, we have to have one within 96 hours of our journey. The process is not as easy as ‘click and...

We decided on a later start today, imagining that once we got going it would be very busy. I had a list of things to do that depended on other people being available and then I remembered it was Saturday.  Lunzuwa is quieter on a Saturday.  We felt that...

The heavens opened last night as we experienced our first thunder storm of the season. It was incredible but had my mind wandering…should we have put the car in the garage?  What if the tree falls down?  Did we close the living room...

Today has been a day marked with the all too familiar cry of the Zambian Kwacha.  We have simultaneously been spinning various plates, all of which it seemed needed to be kept going with a ready supply of cash. We have had essential maintenance and repairs...

Today was a CiCA day.  We decided that we would set up “office” in the garden at Lunzuwa under the shade of the ornamental cherry tree. Bana Keela had made a bucket load of doughnuts, enough for everyone who would come and there were drinks in the fridge...

In common with much of the rest of the world, in Zambia, Covid has overtaken the weather as the number one small talk topic.  As we sat in the waiting area of our local Isuzu garage waiting for mechanics to work out why the car has lost its ability to...