Etosha Burns (Your wallet) Favourite, our Tsumeb Wimpy Bar waitress had a look of total incredulity on her face as Angela requested her second pot of breakfast tea. The simple phrase "I'm sorry, we're English" was all the explanation needed and Favourite moved off, visibly relieved to have solved the puzzle as to why anyone would wish to drink 4 cups of hot tea (with cold milk) with an outside shade temperature of 38C. With a final dose of E numb...

Tsumeb Copper Festival 31 Oct to 4 November 2007 Despite our reluctance to leave the lush and verdant Okavango Delta region, it was time to check out Etosha National Park again before the rains arrived to disperse the game and predators away from the artificial waterholes. To do so we headed towards Tsumeb, a place we seem unable to avoid, whether for catching up on the Internet or for car and trailer repairs. On the way to Tsumeb (that will probably never ...

Hello Namibia "No, there is no unleaded!" Despite nearly 12 continuous months in Southern Africa and a total of 16 months experience, Angela and I can still forget the basics sometimes. We'd driven past several petrol stations on the panhandle road from Maun to Drotsky's Cabins, fully expecting to have a choice of petrol stations in the "large" fishing town of Shakawe, our last Botswana stop before Namibia. The Shell "petrol stat...

Tigers in Botswana? They have orange stripes, massive teeth and are renowned for their strength. Unlike the more famous mammal, the tigers I'm writing about are fish and they inhabit the Okavango Delta. They are renowned for their fighting ability and anglers travel from all over the world to try and catch them. More by luck than judgement Angela and I happened to be travelling up the panhandle of the western Okavango Delta at the perfect time of year for t...

Hi All This is a very quick update from an internet cafe in Maun sat next to an ankle biter (child) with dubious personal hygiene standards. I'm trying to write this before I get a dose of something nasty! We have just got back from a quick trip to 2 national parks (Nxai Pan & Makgadigadi Pans) to the east of Maun and a brief return to civilisation (watching England lose the rugby world cup final at a lodge called Planet Baobab in the middle of nowhere). W...