Ralph,

Just wanted to say to you that the Wireless at is airport is working unsecure. Just before getting on the plane to J'Burg we checked in at the KLM site for the flight from J'Burg to Amsterdam.

:-)

Hello there ! Hope you have recovered from the rugby and drowning your sorrows !! Got your SMS - great to hear from you - and pity that we couldn't watch together. Simon was with us with friends here in Somerset West - needless to say he was ragged mercilessly ! Great game and the atmosphere here was just amazing !! Everyone is still nursing almighty hangovers !

Otherwise all is well ! Just thought that I'd let you know that I am in London for 1 week in November - in case you have any documents etc that you need me to bring back for you. If so - let me know. It can be dropped off with the friends I am staying with.

What are your plans in the next few months ? Doesn't look like you'll ever want to leave Botswana - it sounds really amazing - and your experiences just AWESOME ! And after this - Ralph - you'll be able to earn a living from repairing Landrovers !!!!

Keep well - look after yourselves - i.e. no bumping into Hippos and Lions (inadvertently !).

All the best

Heike - and the rest of the clan.

Hi Arjan & Patricia

Thanks for comments. Nxai Pan and Makgadikgadi Pan were awesome, lion at both but no cheetah. Makgad was full of zebra and zebra carcasses, lions roared all last night quite close to camp and we saw 2 large males this morning walking the road.

Had a fantastic night sleeping under the stars on the Makga Pan, a trip from Planet Baobab. Incredible feeling out there when you can see nothing but salt pan.

In Maun today then off to the panhandle tomorrow. Tried to sell your Landy for scrap but no one wanted it!

Take care

Ralph & Angela

We landed at Schiphol Airpor at 10.00 monday morning. We had a nice flight home, almost the whole trip asleep. As already said to you guys, we had a great time with you the last week, I do miss the sundowners :-). Please pick up the rest of the Landrover and and use it for spareparts, you can use it! Tonight to the Rush concert, it is going to be a great show. Have fun in Nxai pan and enjoy!!!

Speak to you later when you are in Holland, the are now building your own private bedroom (and the rain is pooring down.......)

Take care!

Arjan & Patricia

Hi Arjan & Patricia

Hope you've recovered from your flight. Thanks for sharing your campsites around Moremi with a couple of Brits and thanks for all the foodstuffs etc when you left.

Your Defender 110 is still at the airport, minus 4 tyres and the rooftop tent. Your mugshots are all over lamp posts around Maun re those Park infringements, our silence can be bought.

Have fun at the Rush concert (if that isn't a contradiction in terms) and have a great trip to New York. As for us, we are just going to have to sweat it out at Nxai Pan and Planet Baobob. At least we won't have any Defenders to repair now.

Take care and good luck back at work

Ralph & Angela

Hi Pauline

Thanks for the correction, beating Australia and France and getting to the final is amazing considering England's previous performance.

Glad you like the photos, adding some more later if the connection is fast enough. There is one photo of Gary and Jeff that I'll be adding, they visited us in Moremi.

Thanks for note

Take care

Ralph

Correction to Little Sister's note, England beat France at Rugby on Saturday to go into the Final. Go Jonny Go.

I'm enjoying your blogs and photo's. The photo's of the cheetahs are amazing and also the lions eating dinner. Keep them coming it's brigthens up the boring days at BMI.

Take care

Pauline

Hi Lesley

Thanks for comments. Rugby result is amazing, we'll try and find a bar to watch the final if we are still in Maun.

The lions are very close, sometimes too close for Angela to relax esp when they are nearest her window! Very safe though, they are not known for jumping in to cars!

Pleased you are having a pleasant autumn, it is reaching peak temp here, high 30s every day. October is known as suicide month because of the heat!

Take care

Ralph & Angela

hello you two how the devil are you both, i'm here with doug at mums for the weekend andrew is over from france for a few days and then hes of to holland.

Just to let you know England beat Austrailia at rugby and England beat estonia in the football, so we are in the finals for the rugby (oh jonny jonny jonny wilkinson) lol

The weather here in sussex is really nice we are reaching 19'c we are all in teeshirts, well we are all of to the pub for our sunday roast.

Doug and i went to brighton day show last sunday there was 10,000 bikers from all over the country it was a smashing day. Been busy at work new contract in worcestershire so busy busy busy.

Like the pic of all the pussey cats not sure how close you are to them but hay i would be in the car running for my life.

Well best be off can hear a glass of wine saying (drink me drink me)

Lots of love lesley and douglas xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Hi Tim & Ann

Great meeting you guys in Savuti, Moremi and Audi Camp.

Hope you had a safe drive back through to Windhoek and hope the diving was good in Mozambique (or was it Mauritius?) I guess Haines, Alaska will feel a bit different to Southern Africa. We've had some huge thunderstorms here, people are getting stuck in the mud at Nxai Pan so we are heading back in to Moremi. Got a 3 day pass but will probably stay longer.

We may well see you in Haines or the Yukon if the invitation is still open!

Take care

Ralph & Angela

Hi Vic & Shirley

Thanks for note, we heard that the weather in Britain had improved after Dad left for Spain!

Pleased you like the pictures and blogs, can't upload it as much as we wish as internet connections are often down (mobile signal is often down as well even in Maun).

Hope all goes well with Shirley's hip op

Take care

Ralph & Angela

Hi Jim & Linda

Thanks for update. Didn't know you had a twin city in Japan!

Thought about you guys as we flew out of Maun to Kwara Lodge in the Delta. Got to sit with the pilot on the way back, we were the only passengers in a 6 seat Skyvan. Angela was worried, she looked in the Mack Air brochure and realised the pilot was only 22 years old!

Maun is ok, very hot and dusty and very noisy at night (donkeys, goats, cockerels, sound systems, cars, people etc but we sleep through it now. Kwara was a lovely camp, like Xigera where we met you, good mix of game drives and boat trips. We declined the mokoro trip this time after meeting an elephant in the papyrus at Xigera!

Saw cheetah kill an impala and watched 7 male lions get a calf from a herd of 200+ buffalo. Can recommend Kwara (Kwando Safaris) if you are back this way. Good guides with trackers on front seat.

Hope all well

Ralph & Angela