Only in Japan could you combine robots with toilets! That's a hell of a brainstorm in our book and we could write a whole blog on the features of their toilets - music choice, seat temperature, bum wash pressure; put a fridge and tv in there and Nathaniel would never leave. Despite the commendable sanitary conditions, the public toilet is still Andrea's achilles heel and there was no change to the look of sheer horror on her face everytime she exits one. The Japa...

Honkers! - just a short blog to put it on our map. One of two specially administered zones of the People's Republic of China, but try not to remind them of that fact. We arrived on new years eve eve and were shattered from the flight from Jo'burg but having arrived early we set out on a pleasant stroll around town before we could check into our room and crash hard. We can now finally reminisce when we are older about the period when we lived in a tiny Hong Kong a...

'twas Christmas Day and a long drive took us from the battlefields of Natal to the Mozambique border and Safari!!! The majesty of Kruger Park has left us lost for words. (Nathaniel was thankful for the 10 mins of silence) Seriously though, nothing could have prepared us for the experience of viewing African animals in their natural habitat. We saw 9 lions, around 50 elephants (no joke), and countless buffalo, hippo, rhino, wildebeest, impala, giraffe, crocodiles....

We made our way to Zulu country and the first stop was the Drakensburg World Heritage Site. We'd never heard of it due to our own ignorance but were glad we stumbled across it as it is the home of the world's largest ampitheatre mountain face (apparently 10 times the area of El Capitan in Yosemite) and Tiguela Falls, the highest waterfall in Africa, second highest in the world. We saw our first wild baboons in the Royal Natal National Park with a second sighting ...

Seth Efrika my friend. "Here we are in the African Urban Savannah, observing the native South African. The South African homo sapien bears quite an abrupt accent, hence their scientific name - homo talkus horriblus." So we arrived in Johannesburg and reached our first dilemma - how does one get an African baby through Australian Customs? (We were quite taken by how adorable they are) We were also surprised at a few things such as: how few whiteys there are out an...