Fleetwood on Sea Umhlanga Rocks

... so I was able to nod off for a bit. Once at the airport at 4:40 AM, I changed dirhams to South African rands and then sat down for a Costa Coffee caffeine injection. I sat there marking students' papers for over an hour. Eventually I checked my bag and went through customs at close to 7:45. Mary was not there yet but had texted to say she was nearly there. I had a looksie at the electronics in the duty free but ...

... the line so we would not have to hang around all day and wait for an appointment to enter the docs.

Tomorrow we head up the coast road to eMthunzini toward HluHulwe Imfolozi (Hlu is pronounced Sh we knew that "not") National Park. We probably won’t get too far up the road as we have groceries and a few domestics to finish first but at least we will be on our way to London.

... going back at least as far as the 17th century, indeed, it is thought that Vasco de Gama arrived at the city port in the late 15th century.
Upon arrival we were given a tour of Durban a busy industrial city that has the largest container port in South Africa. According to the 2007 Community Survey, the city has a population of almost 3.5 million ...

South Africa is really... white. Durban is dangerous at night and there
is a huge mall. They have blackouts every day for two hours at two in
the afternoon, and even the malls shut down.

Hallo allemaal, vandaag zijn we aanbeland in Drakensberg, dicht bij de grens met Lesotho (vandaar mijn pin op de kaart). We logeren in het amphitheatre, tot nu toe de chicste B/P waar we al in gelogeerd hebben. Het uitzicht is hier FANTASTISCH je kan kijken zover je wilt aan ene kant en aan de andere kijk je op tegen de berg. Leuk zwembad, zelfs gratis jacuzzi en sauna ;-), maar ...

... old, and a 7-8 week old girl. It was a true balancing act as I fed the baby with one hand and played with the other two with my other hand. I was nervous though about the little boy having another seizure as I had no idea where his medicine was kept. I then went with Liz to retrieve two boys and a girl, who are all around 3 yrs. old, at their play school. We took them to the grocery store so I could buy lunch. I don't know as though they had ever been in the grocery ...

... start coz the boat driver person was too late and we had to wait for 2 other chickies that did their make-up a little too well to impress the fish, we were on our way! Fiona and myself suffer from motion sickness and decided it would be an idea to take tablets for it before going on our little trip... well it worked I must say... Seeing the humpback whale for the first time in my life was absolutely brilliant... even when she switched of the engine and the boat was just going with the ...

Saubonani! En period pa IVA (Intensivvardsavdelningen) och narkosen som varit hektisk. Gjort blandat dag- och nattpass. Det ar pa natterna det hander. Nya patienter rullar in, oftast fran operationefter att ha atgardat skador eller div. svara infektionstillstand. Manga ar ar hypovalema (utblodda), hypoterma (har lag kroppstemp) och/eller septiska (blodforgiftning). Jag ...

... so the long journey was quickly forgotten... The next day we got up early and headed off on an absailing adventure. We absailed down a 50m rock face and at the bottom were treated to an amazing view of "The Baby Hole in the Wall" (see the pics). Our guide then cooked us amazing toasties on an open air BBQ, and we enjoyed them in front of a beautiful waterfall ...

... of excitement only kids can show. We then visited a homeless girls shelter a little outside of town called Tennyson House, and met some of the staff as well as residents. We've done the Africa tourist thang and been on safari (albeit a safari park). Visiting in the middle of the week, we hoped for a gentle and peaceful passage through the park followed by a quiet 'braai' (barbecue - to those uninitiated). And this it would have been, if it were ...