The title for my blog derives from a conversation Erica had at Harare airport a few years ago, after we had paid a visit to our very good friends, Sean and Michelle, and their family.  She was quite upset as we prepared to leave.  It had been a long time since we had...

Driving to the airport you kind of get in the mood.  The music vibe changes and the volume goes up.  Every song is a reminder of the distinctive nature of the African rhythm. Somewhere in the playlist is "the one song" that any traveller who has ever experienced this...

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...