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We'll see some more posting happening soon too - as soon as we can write up our thoughts at an internet cafe that doesn't charge the earth and take its time!]]> General http://nucleus.pteralix.com/?itemid=37 Wed, 12 Sep 2007 03:29:40 -0400 http://nucleus.pteralix.com/?itemid=35
As we said, Africa has sporadic internet access - and some of the weirdest net cafe setups that Cads has ever seen. Emma thinks that they are a marvel of the modern age. So... We're going to upload what we can when we can.

Cads has got to Day 5 of Namibia (which was about 2 weeks ago!) and Emma has finished Namibia and is now trying to deal with Zambia and the first part of Mozambique... Our bet is that she finishes first and Cads kind of flails around a little.

Anyway - we are all well and living at the moment. In the UK from 13-20 September, so we are very nearly on our last leg through...

Lloyd - if you are reading this, we aren't going to make it to Wells - any chance you can get to London for the 15th September? Comments please.]]> General http://nucleus.pteralix.com/?itemid=35 Mon, 3 Sep 2007 11:33:32 -0400 http://nucleus.pteralix.com/?itemid=31 Chanters Lodge. After sleeping in tents for 12 days and traveling in a box for about 6-8 hours of those, Chanters offers a welcome relief with Internet access, TV, bar and general lounging aroundness. It is also close to the river that thunders and walkable into town.

Next up is Maputo and up the coast to Tanzania...]]> General http://nucleus.pteralix.com/?itemid=31 Sun, 26 Aug 2007 01:43:23 -0400 http://nucleus.pteralix.com/?itemid=25
Well, Africa is sporadic for internet access (unsurprisingly). We are currently in Swakopmund travelling with Thimbi Thimbi Safaris based out of Windhoek (Vindhook). We have a nice group of people and have had our forming storming norming and some performing too!.

So far (we left on Monday - today is Wednesday) ...

Sesreim - the Dunes for Sunset - spectacular
Sesreim - the Dunes for Sunrise - spectacular (but very tired after a 5am wakeup)
Sossusvlei - a vlei - meh
Dead Vlei - a vlei in the dunes - spectacular (can you see where we are going with this?)
Sesreim Canyon - an empty canyon (with a little puddle) for sunset - spectacular
Walvis Bay - a beach town with a salt works - surreal.
Swakopmund - a beach town with some surf (Cads probably won't be able to go :( )

And that's where we are. We'll post what we've got when we get better access!

Oh - a vlei is literally a "lake" but in Namibia it really means a hard pan where there isn't water anymore and hasn't been for a good long while.]]> General http://nucleus.pteralix.com/?itemid=25 Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:07:27 -0400 http://nucleus.pteralix.com/?itemid=19 Food Poisoning courtesy of Coral Sea Resort Airlie Beach North Queensland Australia. We wandered over to the Coral Sea resort (admittedly not our regular scene - very much catering at this time of year to the sort of Gran Canaria, Costa Del Sol British tourist) to see if we could go paragliding. No such luck - apparently the boat has been out of action for 2 months according to the operator on the end of the jetty.

We decided to have a light snack though - Emma had the Rare Beef Strip Salad and Caedman had the chef's special sandwiches - Cheese and Egg Mayo. Emma found her salad to be far too covered in dressing and Caedman had no dressing on his garnish/salad. No problem, Caedman gave Emma his salad and they shared the green leafy bits with Emma eating the meat and Caedman eating the olives.

Both of us admit that the food was lovely the first time around. But that was the problem. Around 5-6 hours later Caedman got to re-experience the food. This time coming up the wrong way. Besides the ignominy of vomiting copiously over the railings of a sailboat BEFORE SHE'D EVEN LEFT HER MOORING, this really put a damper on the upcoming 3 days. For a while, it appeared that it might have been a one off, but then Emma had the exact same reaction about 5 hours further through the night. As the only thing that we had shared that and the previous day had been the salad, we have to conclude that something was off with the salad dressing.

The poisoning knocked us out for the entire first day of the sail, which not only meant that we couldn't dive, but that people on the boat couldn't enjoy themselves as much as they might out of consideration for the nauseous and "crook" Emma and Cads.

We have to say that if this is Luxury Dining in Airlie Beach, stick to bringing your own sandwiches or at least eating elsewhere. ]]> General http://nucleus.pteralix.com/?itemid=19 Fri, 3 Aug 2007 04:58:46 -0400 http://nucleus.pteralix.com/?itemid=8
We thought we'd put this (admittedly image intensive) webpage together so that you can keep up with us on our voyage. The strip at the top will contain 7 random images of our travels as we upload things, the map at the bottom is where we currently are (this is software driven so we don't have to update it)

Click on any of the images above and they open in the same window like a slideshow - click on the map-pin below and the same thing happens, but with a satellite image of our current position!(sort of) yay!

Please feel free to leave comments.

Oh - Piglets Potter and Bearish Bumble are the two other blogs that we run - and MOST of our stuff will be there (you can get there from the headlines above). This is for fast overviews and things like discussions of food and places to stay that we like! Also for pics of Giraffes, Hippos, Cheetahs and the ilk (a small furry animal that lives by gnawing the bark from branches that have been carried into the savannah by rodents)]]> General http://nucleus.pteralix.com/?itemid=8 Sun, 15 Jul 2007 19:29:36 -0400