Meredith dropped us off in Washington DC after our amazing stay with her (we miss her already) for our whirlwind tour of the nations capital. In just over a day and a half we have seen the majority of the sights - The White House, The Capitol Building, Lincoln Memorial, FDR Memorial, Korean War Memorial, The Pentagon, The Iwo Jima Memorial, FBI Building, JFK Burial site, Washington Monument, The Smithsonian, World War 2 Memorial, Pool of Reflection and the Thoma...

Hi all We hope you are all having a good new year. So we took a little detour to Philadelphia to see Meredith (the girl we met in Africa). She bowls up in her black SUV and picks us up driving all the way to Philadelphia. We love Meredith! So we had 3 nights with her where we watched the Dallas Cowboys kick the crap out of the Eagles, ate loads of Chicken wings, visited the Liberty Bell, Independence Hall, had a Phili Cheese Steak, Visited the stairs Rocky clim...

Happy New Year to you all. So New Year was a blast, we had VIP access within the barriers and it made the city seem a lot easier. We never realised how difficult it would be to move around in New York on New Years. The barriers and amount of NYPD blockades were incredible, literally on every corner. Luckily our pass paid off and we even cut through one block south of Times Square to get to our first bar. The New York Arts Centre – Open Bar – woohoo. Megan r...

Good morning to you all on this New Years Eve. We have literally just woken up to a snowfall in New York. There is something magical about this city – especially in the winter. So what have we been up to – I hear all you jealous people ask? Well we arrived in Manhattan after increased security checks on the flight – luckily only around an hour late. However it was to BA’s credit quite a good flight – very comfortable. Danny and I watched the Hangover...

So we have been in Johannesburg for 3 days now, Geoff drove us here from Finsbury on Christmas Eve, it’s been absolutely lovely. Carol and the dogs Thandi and Monty were here to greet us. The dogs being a young Bull Terrier about 8 months old and a huge Newfoundland pedigree cross breed (about the size of Megan). We have had lots of fun with these two – Thandi took a special liking to Danny. We spent Christmas Eve at a friend of Geoff and Carols, where we h...