Yet more form Africa
OK,
Sorry about the slightly dull nature of the last e-mail but I saw in something of a rush to get what I'd done and seen down as I had literally 5 minutes before I had to head off to pay to try and kill myself sky diving, sand boarding and quad biking over the dunes!
So, the rest of the news, I'm now in Zimbabway and the internet is v slow so please forgive the fact this is a bit of a generic e-mail but I can't really open any of the messages that I've been sent so ....
As I said it's a really good crowd on the truck with three couples (two australian, one English) one slightly older Australian bloke with his 30 year old daughter (single), a single femail Austalian and another single bloke (19 year onld English). The group works really well and thankfully plenty of them are keen to stay up drinking, dancing and generally misbehaving most of the time. That said I'm now at the half way point in my trip and so we are changing trucks and a few of the people.
The truck we're on has a giant cool box in for drinks so I've taken it upon myself to run the trunk bar to the beer is flowing from the call of "beers o'clock" that is geenerally called any time from 11am onwards, all good clean African fun!
On the subject of drinking, its so cheap out here! It's been tough getting over the lack of proper drinks but the lager is begining to slip down easier and I've also dicovered drinks like the springbok (pepermint and amarula) and a gemsbok (kalua and amarula) which with a few choice actions can be drunk all night in many of the bars out here.
The eating safri continues at pace, I've now sampled springbok, gemsbok, impala, crocodile, eland, wilderbeast, waterbuck, kudu, warthog and many more. I've alsobeen fairly successsful in seeing them alive only not having spotted the waterbuck out of what I've eaten and the leopard out of the big 5 (lion, buffalo, rhino, elephant). Can also check of giraffe, zebra, chetaa, hippo, saple, and every kind of bird, monitor et al in africa!
As I said I'm now in Zim at Vic Falls (v. nice) having come through Namibia and Botswan (beautful countries) where I've walked the sand dunes, been round a township, paddled through the okovango deltain hollowed out fibreglass trees, driven through Etosha and Chobe national parks and thrown myself of all sorts of platforms in a bid to get the biggest adrenalin rush in Africa.
Today I'm going gorge swinging and tomorrow I'll be taking off over vic falls in a tiger moth which I'm told can fly upside down while doing a look the loop, should be fun after the booze crews up the river tonight where it's all you can drink!
Hope things are going well back home, for those of you its relevant to, hope the shows went well, congratulations on the promotion (didn't really ever doubt it would happpen), thanks for the messages even if I can't read most of them and hope you''re all having as much fun as I am.
Must dash.
laters
Jonathan
Internetcafe
Vic Falls
Africa
Sorry about the slightly dull nature of the last e-mail but I saw in something of a rush to get what I'd done and seen down as I had literally 5 minutes before I had to head off to pay to try and kill myself sky diving, sand boarding and quad biking over the dunes!
So, the rest of the news, I'm now in Zimbabway and the internet is v slow so please forgive the fact this is a bit of a generic e-mail but I can't really open any of the messages that I've been sent so ....
As I said it's a really good crowd on the truck with three couples (two australian, one English) one slightly older Australian bloke with his 30 year old daughter (single), a single femail Austalian and another single bloke (19 year onld English). The group works really well and thankfully plenty of them are keen to stay up drinking, dancing and generally misbehaving most of the time. That said I'm now at the half way point in my trip and so we are changing trucks and a few of the people.
The truck we're on has a giant cool box in for drinks so I've taken it upon myself to run the trunk bar to the beer is flowing from the call of "beers o'clock" that is geenerally called any time from 11am onwards, all good clean African fun!
On the subject of drinking, its so cheap out here! It's been tough getting over the lack of proper drinks but the lager is begining to slip down easier and I've also dicovered drinks like the springbok (pepermint and amarula) and a gemsbok (kalua and amarula) which with a few choice actions can be drunk all night in many of the bars out here.
The eating safri continues at pace, I've now sampled springbok, gemsbok, impala, crocodile, eland, wilderbeast, waterbuck, kudu, warthog and many more. I've alsobeen fairly successsful in seeing them alive only not having spotted the waterbuck out of what I've eaten and the leopard out of the big 5 (lion, buffalo, rhino, elephant). Can also check of giraffe, zebra, chetaa, hippo, saple, and every kind of bird, monitor et al in africa!
As I said I'm now in Zim at Vic Falls (v. nice) having come through Namibia and Botswan (beautful countries) where I've walked the sand dunes, been round a township, paddled through the okovango deltain hollowed out fibreglass trees, driven through Etosha and Chobe national parks and thrown myself of all sorts of platforms in a bid to get the biggest adrenalin rush in Africa.
Today I'm going gorge swinging and tomorrow I'll be taking off over vic falls in a tiger moth which I'm told can fly upside down while doing a look the loop, should be fun after the booze crews up the river tonight where it's all you can drink!
Hope things are going well back home, for those of you its relevant to, hope the shows went well, congratulations on the promotion (didn't really ever doubt it would happpen), thanks for the messages even if I can't read most of them and hope you''re all having as much fun as I am.
Must dash.
laters
Jonathan
Internetcafe
Vic Falls
Africa
posted by JP at 9:00 pm
