http://blogs.bootsnall.com/chuggy A BootsnAll Travel Blog Fri, 22 May 2009 14:15:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Danny, Tucker and me decided to go over to Northern Ireland to watch the NW200 - sounded like a great idea, though with Gillys birthday, we'd actually have to come back BEFORE the racing!!! anyhoo, we rode over to Stranraer on the Saturday morning - and -after coffee and brekkie sarnies ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/chuggy/irish-motorcycle-racing.html so, once Charlie had left - in good health!- I was left in command (!) of Koro camp - fools! beginningwith 10 students, the numbers dropped as the 'season' drew to a close, though there was still ots of time for a lot of funa dn some close encounters with ellies!: one ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/chuggy/just-to-finish-of-tuli-2008.html We were sitting around the boma at Koro camp one afternoon, the day before Charlie and the Trackers were leaving, when Kate (the camp 'maid', I guess) ran i, saying there was a snake outside. we ran out to see a Mozambique Spitting Cobra lying inthe grass, with most of ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/chuggy/spitting-cobra.html Back at Joburg, I met up with Martin and Mark (ACE) and got transferred back to the Botswana border at Platjan. Here I met up with Charlie again who drove me and Frazer (new student) into Tuli letting me sit on the Tracker down to the camp. I only stayed at ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/chuggy/tuli-tracking-course.html Well, its been 7 months since I was in Africa - I was missing it OK, I was missing it AND Stuart at Tuli had emailed me to ask if I would go over and help him run the Tracking course now offered by ACE and then help to run Koro ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/chuggy/south-africa-game-capture-again-again.html just completed my first biking trip on the continent: I had just packed in a job and was looking for somewhere to take my mind of it - a guy I know was already booked for a trip over to the Italian alps (Dolomites) with people he knew, so I ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/chuggy/euro-bike-trip.html so after a night in Zambia, I decided that as I had to get out (visa ending) I might as well get the bus to Windhoek, with Rags......so a quick booking for Intercape buses on the 'net and 2 hours later we're sittingon a Mainliner bus.....on a 20 hour bus trip! We ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/chuggy/where-nowooh-i-know-namibia.html so, we crossed the border and stayed at Shoestrings hostel in Victoria Falls ...nice place though pretty empty (we're in the rainy season remember so not a top tourist time) First things first: Money changing!....there are 2 options: No.1 the official way ~ change 1 US dollar for 30,000 Zim dollars. ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/chuggy/zimbabwe-nice-place-shame-about-the-politics.html another fairly uneventful bus ride took us from Lusaka to Vic Falls (nowt happened in Lusaka...sadly) where we arrived with smoke billowing from the side of the bus and the driver struggling - from the last 30km- to engage any gears! a short walk got us to our hostel for the ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/chuggy/zambia-and-vic-falls.html Rags, David and I left the Ilala at Nkhotakhota and had a reet laff getting ashore and to the hostel: we left the ferry by lifeboat (along with about another 200 others!) but that boat only gets so far and then you either wade the rest of the way to ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/chuggy/malawi-to-zambia.html