We were the last people up in our dorm around 9ish and woke up to another s***ty weather day in Lilongwe. We found out that we were in the middle of rainy season....

Jack and I popped to the town again, winding in and out of some terrible traffic on our way to buying ourselves a budget lunch of chicken and ham paste, tuna and a loaf of bread. Tried a Cadbury's Mint Crisp bar but it simply wasn't the same. This time I didn't c*** up at the cashpoint and got 20,000 kwacha (about 85quid) - literally looked a ridiculous wad of money which a local could probably live off for a year!

Missing some golf, we enquired how much it would be at Lilongwe Golf Club but Jack was not impressed that it would cost around 20quid in total. Some guys were there even asking us if they could be our caddies!

Something that is gettin ridiculous on our travels but what we are going to have to get very used to, is being hassled. Being white basically stamps money on your forehead. All the time everywhere we have kids saying "give me money" and people trying to sell things who just won't let go. I had to yell at Jack as he was hassled by literally a dozen craft salesmen who all wanted him to buy there stuff. I kind of figured you have to be ignorant and walk away (but say no thanks), because otherwise you're in for a long ride. Took about 15 minutes to try and get past these guys laying their paintings, carvings etc on the floor to display.

Being in the capital but more so on the outskirts, it was a bit odd. Completely not what we expected. It looked more like a suburb in an American state or something, well looked after, lots of attractive plants and trees, some nice looking places, not too cramped - was almost the opposite to what we were anticipating.

Anyway, back to what we'd been doing - I tried uploading photos for an hour and not 1 managed to go through. Net is s*** and slow in the cafe's, looks like may have to wait until SA for uploading! Fairly cheap on net though, 300kw (1.30) for an hour.

Me and Jack played some more cards - he beat me comprehensively whilst we had lunch.

I have had a s***ty cold for several days now that I think I caught off Andy's little lad Leo, even had to buy a 10p bog roll in town the other day to prevent....well you know!

Weather began to pick up a bit and the medical girls had told us that some guys play touch rugby down at the school nearby. We jumped at the chance and actually had a good sesh! Both of us clearly not as fit as we once were but scored lots of tries and were pretty decent! Because it was the rainy season when these termite-fly things come out, the pitch was swarming. I had one straight in my mouth. Niiiice.

After a quick shower and change, we joined the girls and walked to a Chinese. It was probably the best Chinese I've ever had, or maybe it's just because I was hungry! However, it cost 14 quid with the wines but we realised they'd charged us double for the wine! Abbie complained and got 3000 kw back but the manager said it would be coming out of the waiter's wages! Bit harsh so as a group we decided to give him the money back. But then he got a humiliating telling-off in front of everyone! Chinese boss was a knob! And I was pissed off that we gave the money back to be honest as it would have saved us a couple of quid each (but in fairness would be harsh on the poor waiter if that was deducted considering what they earn).

Then jumped in a taxi to some wicked club/bar where there was a right mix of people and volleyball matches going on that looked very serious! We had a few drinks (80p each) and some local girl started talking to us trying to sell Airtel (mobile company) stuff (she ended up giving me a shirt!) and found out that she went to Aberystwyth Uni and knows some people that Jack does. Weird! Oh, comedy moment, we were introduced to a couple of the girls' friends and one of them in front of me was literally about 4foot something, almost resembling a midget - and my comment was when Jack was introduced to the girl who went to Aber, "small world isn't it?".....oops....

The girls had some dodgy texts from there mate Martha who walked back to the lodge after the restaurant so we rushed back (as it did sound like she had been kidnapped or something!). Turned out the bint was all tucked up asleep in bed sending retarded messages as she was half asleep!

As seen as we were back early, I caught the end of the Rangers-United game waiting for the Spurs goals to come on but I wanted to play pool! However, when I got to the pool table no one was there and the two girls and Jack and Frederic (Dutch guy) were skinny dipping!

I couldn't resist, so ordered 10 beers for us (on Abbie's orders on her friend's tab) and dived in. We pissed around drinking more shots and beers and playing diving and swimming games for an hour or two before chatting to some Scottish guys and the American bar manager before bed.