Ok, finally got some photos on here, only took 2 hours to download 4 of them!! I will get the Africa photos loaded up when i find faster internet. The ones i have put up are of our few days in France.

We made it to Timbuktu!!On Thursday morning we checked out of Macs Refuge and caught a taxi to the Bank to get some money out, that was no straight forward task, it was a real typical African bank where there are lots of customers lazing around waiting patiently, hardly any staff, lots of fans on and not much happening - I said to Greg, if you walked into a bank like this in New Zealand to get some money out, you would turn around and walk straight back out, you ...

Well this blog seems to take a while to open so have had a hard time trying to update it!I will start from when we left London. We had a great night out with the girls and their partners, was just unfortunate that i was sick. The next day Greg and i got on our cheap Ryanair flight to Tours in the Loire Valley, on arrival we picked up our rental car which was more like a bus than a car! It was an 8 seater with extra room for luggage! Was a bit of a mission to ...

hi everyone, havent been able to update this as there is not much internet here. We are in Mopti at the moment, it is sooo hot!! should be going to dogon country tomorrow or monday, things are going well, will try and update this properly later in the week with hopefully a better connection and details of what we have been up to until now...

Well i'm not in West Africa yet, i'm in London with Greg. I got here on Wednesday morning after a very long flight and Greg met me at the airport, it was sooo good to see him again!! We have just been getting some last minute things organised before we leave for the Loire Valley in France tomorrow. We've also been doing some touristy things, yesterday we took a boat up the Thames to Greenwich and went up to the meridian line, and on wednesday we wandered aroun...