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16 Nov

Malawi 2007

In November, Trish went to Rumphi in Malawi.  We’re funding a branch of the microloan bank that the wonderful Microloan Foundation is setting up in Rumphi and this was Trish’s first opportunity to see how the initial set up had gone.  We were really pleased that loans are already being made and the team on the ground […]

28 Aug

Sossusvlei from space…

Here’s a great picture of the sossusvlei area and the dunes surrounding it.

27 Aug

Final Africa Photo Album

Finally here is the last photograph album from the africa trip (posted from Windhoek airport).

26 Aug

Day 17: Balloons over the desert

5am start again!  There is a big issue here about “seeing things at sunrise” which is good once you get there but it is pretty rough when you have to get up.  We were driven by very chatty German/Namibian woman from the Namib Sky Balloon Safari company to the launch site which was about an hour away.  When […]

25 Aug

Day 16: Sossusvlei, quad biking and getting stuck…

Because I’m such a teenager (!?) I was too lazy to do a blog for a while, but it’s back to me for the second last day of our Africa trip (cue Mum - ‘NO! DON’T LET YOUR MIND GO HOME!’ Me - ‘My mind is already home, sitting in my room, doing MSN.’).
Today we got […]

24 Aug

Day 15: The Namibian Desert

The flight to Sossusvlei Mountain Lodge was on a tiny six seater Cessna. We arrived at Windhoek’s “little” airport called curiously Eros Airport and met Dion (?) our pilot who grabbed our bags, walked out onto the tarmac and stuffed them in the back of the plane. This sure beats check in at Heathrow.  […]

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