Hotel Villa Toscania Johannesburg

... by one of Trigs mate's called Luke. Luke was quality, he was a mountain of a man weighing in at around 105kg's of muscle, but so friendly and generous, especially when we got into his club and he was very liberal with the vodka redbull's. The women in that place were awesome, me and Dean hit the dancefloor and had two beautiful young fitties flitting around us for most of the night but neither of us had the bolloks to make any kind of move, so they ...

... 10, so we headed over to McDonald's for some fine dining and splurged on a Mint Chocolate Milkshake (not that good by the way). Nearly froze on the walk back to the hotel, it was only 13 degrees outside! Made a quick pit stop for some water and candy, a guy there thought we were American because we called it candy not "sweets". Made it back to the hotel and quickly went to bed excited for our adventure. 

... sich jetzt nach nichts Besonderem an, aber ich rede hier auch nicht von irgendeinem 08/15-Kaufhof oder von kommenden Einkaufszentren auf ehemaligen Kleinstadt-Sportplaetzen - die Dinger sind riesig. Und ums noch mehr zu verdeutlichen: sowas in Afrika! Weil ich schon um die Mittagszeit angekommen war und so viel wie moeglich von der Stadt sehen wollte, hab ich mich gleich mal zu einem der Palaeste aufgemacht. Okay, vielleicht wollte ich auch einfach mal ...

... every second of it.

Phillipe picked me up at the airport, my flight was an hour late
and poor Phillipe (whom I've only met once very briefly btw) waited for me to arrive. I really have good karma, I must say, because quite a few people on my flight did not get their luggage. Mine, however, arrived among the first in the batch after I breezed through customs with no questions asked, not even one! Philllipe grabbed me and we went directly to my ...

... Gina and had our first bunny chow. Coffee Bay - The famous Coffee Bay that so many people had told us about turned out to be fantastic, the hostel was really traditional (straw roofed huts), friendly and had the buffalo rule. The evenings consisted of card games, traditional drumming, good food and free mussels and then the writing of the "Coffee Shack Song" which we are sure will appear on youtube very soon ...

We took off from JFK on June 14th and arrived in Johannesburg (J'burg to the locals) after a stopover in Dakar on Sunday, June 15th. We are staying at a bed and breakfast in Melville (neighborhood considered "nice" in travel guides). It's winter ...

... of hours so Nick was able to top up my phone and try and make appointments with the passport agency back in london for me. Only by the time I could get an appointment and then fly back the tour would already be in Namibia and I would have bigger problems getting a bus and crossing the border on my own.... it just wasn't an option! The worst part about this other than the way I have been treated is that I had to leave my poor mate ...

... in safe storage. I was exhausted after 75 days of travel, and only had one more 20 hour bus journey to endure. I called my ex-wife Sarah and left a message on her phone, and too my surprise she came to visit me an hour later. It was great to speak to someone who knew me and I shared some of my journey with her, the highlights and lowlights, while fending of her evil disapproving glares at my ridiculous hairstyle and scruffy tri-colored beard!

... taken the liberty of plagerizing the Mastercard ads... 6 months in Africa: $6800 177 days of living, breathing and feeling the ...

... or you run out before the end of the week. Also, since the kids are more important than the occupants of Rainbow, we tend to get the worst portion when the supplies are split into five. The soup is always the same though, a mush of various vegetables. Today there was mince in it, a rare treat. We only get meat at the weekend, usually once every week, sometimes once every two weeks. Needless to say you get bored of pap and soup. When we get ...