For a trip that was meant to be all about the rhino, I'm happy to say that I came into contact with an awful lot of cats during my ...

How I do love it when this happens! Trawling through a whole notebook of crabbed-written notes on the South Africa trip, as well as transc...

I live a life of variety, I'm pleased to say. Just when things are getting a bit boring, fabulous trips like the African one pop up i...

I don't know if this is going to last, but travelling around rural South Africa and going into schools and communities has given me ...

They have some classy stuff in the shops at Joburg airport: lovely jewellery, clothes, carvings and household items (also plastic vuvuzela...

I've never sat on the loo before, stroking a cat balanced on the rim of the basin, while watching monkeys leap along the wall outside....

There are a lot of gaps to fill in once I'm home, thanks to dodgy Internet connections in the bush, tch, appalling. It's our last ...