Brett was fairly clear that we needed an early start today. “We’ll probably leave around 9.30” suggested Philippa. “I’d prefer […]


Brett was fairly clear that we needed an early start today. “We’ll probably leave around 9.30” suggested Philippa. “I’d prefer […]

I slept deeply last night, waking at one point to hear a hippo grazing somewhere close. I could hear its […]

Somehow we managed to get our tents up last night, regaled by hippos grunting in the darkness. The soundtrack for […]

Now, I like close-harmony singing as much as the next man. But at 5.30 in the morning, blasting out through […]

The sun is going down behind us and the trees are dropping thick seed pods like curls of bark which […]

No this isn’t Zambia. What gave you that idea? No, this is the car park of the Premier Inn at […]

We have just taken off from Salalah and the desert is dissolving into a misty haze below us. As we […]

Oman is dark at 6pm and gets light at 6am so we’ve been early to bed and early to rise […]

The wind got up overnight. Sharp gusts that rattled the tent before everything became perfectly still again. Then another gust, […]

This is the day that I have been waking up at five in the morning and thinking about for months. […]