Category: Overland Life

  • A Time to Pause

    A Time to Pause

    We had fallen completely in love with Serbia – a place which barely registers on the tourist scale and which many people believe is an aggressive country best avoided. That may be true of its government but is entirely wrong of its people. It is also beautiful – did I mention that? We were heading…

  • Reflections on Africa

    Reflections on Africa

    Whenever we flew from Africa to the UK to visit our friends and family there was always a strong sense of being disjointed, almost fractured. The two worlds are so entirely different that it is hard to reconcile them. As we travelled to the airport in either direction it seemed incomprehensible that we would be…

  • The End of a Nightmare – But it Feels Like a Dream!

    The End of a Nightmare – But it Feels Like a Dream!

    It´s been a whole three weeks since our last post – partly due to lack of internet coverage but also because I feel there is only so much that can be said about rebuilding a Landrover before it starts to get a bit samey! Not that the last few weeks have been boring for us,…

  • The Phoenix Rises from the Ashes

    The Phoenix Rises from the Ashes

    Just before I sat down to write this update I worked out how long it has been since the accident. It happened on 28th June so 11 weeks ago – I can hardly believe it. It feels like yesterday, but when I think back such a lot has happened in between and we are in…

  • Back from the Abyss

    Back from the Abyss

    This blog post is dedicated to : Thank you all for everything you have done for us. At the end of the first day we were simply relieved to be alive but there was nothing else good in our world. Henry was a wreck at the bottom of a cliff and everything we owned was…

  • The Recovery

    The Recovery

    It felt as though our lives would never be the same again, we were devastated but we were still alive – barely harmed apart from a few bruises – and we were counting our blessings. As we stood on the trail looking down at Henry, we knew we had to get him back up no…

  • Death of a Hero

    Death of a Hero

    We had been back at Mlilwane for a couple of days, feeling very much at home. I woke at my usual time of around 6am with no idea that today would bring events seared into my mind forever. Instead, I gazed out of my window at the rain pounding down simply enjoying being curled up…

  • Container Shipping – A Cautionary Tale

    Container Shipping – A Cautionary Tale

    The shipping industry – set up by Pirates, taken over by the Mafia and not changed much since! My advice to anyone considering shipping their vehicle is simple – find another way!! There are only four main shipping companies in the world – Maersk, MSC, CMA/CGM and COSCO. Everyone else involved are basically agents who…

  • Girl Interrupted – an Unexpected Interlude

    Girl Interrupted – an Unexpected Interlude

    I have just sat and read a few of my last blog posts and the sounds, smells and feelings of West Africa have coming flooding back to me after six weeks in the UK. It may have been challenging, frustrating and at times downright hard work, but I have missed everything about it with every…

  • And So It Begins

    I’m not sure how many husbands get on so well with their mother-in-law but we had a really lovely few days relaxing at Mum’s – the two of them bonded over wine, films and blueberry cheesecake! And how appropriate to spend our last day in the UK doing something so quintessentially English as going to…