Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!

We both wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We shall be spending our Christmas day at the Kansanshi hotel in the northern Zambian mining town of Solwezi. Our hosts, David and Veroncia, have made us feel very welcome and have very kindly let us park Big Bertha in their car park for the duration. […]

A Close Encounter of the Hippo Kind

A Close Encounter of the Hippo Kind

(A shorter recreation of our post from 2019 which was mysteriously deleted…) Whilst staying with Nikolai and Aniela at their lovely home-cum-lodge on the Namibian Caprivi strip, Aniela suggested we take a river trip with Dan, their British neighbour. From Middlesbrough, Dan established Mashi River Safaris in 2010 having been in the area since 2007. Dan is a true no […]