Richard writes… We have had two hard days of travelling, spending time on buses and motorbikes, but mostly Malawian minibuses. These things are tough work. The highlight was definitely the half hour or so for which our 12-seater bus contained 20 adults, two small children, a builder's materials-style bag full of dried fish, some more bags of maize, seemingly about a mile of bamboo fence (coiled up), both of our backpacks, and a chicken. The sad thing is that w...

So, blog entry number one… The week leading up to our departure was definitely not what I (Nic) expected after Rich asked me to marry him on Saturday morning. It is such a happy event and I was so pleased we were able to share it with our families and friends before we left. I would be lying if I said it was out of the blue as we purchased a ring earlier in the year, but I was led to believe the proposal would happen whilst we were away, so it definitely took ...