Car for Sale!

I have decided to sell my car. It has been a great safari car, (brilliant having a sunroof for game drives!)but it is time to start looking for a buyer. I'm not looking for a quick sale...yet, so I will start slowly and put the word out...starting here.

Gorgonzola (quite strong and beastly, like the cheese) has taken me to the very north of the country, to Kidepo National Park, as well as Bwindi in the south and lots of places in between. She is part of all my safari adventures so it will be hard to say goodbye.

Gorgonzola has had work done on her recently; including new shocks on the back, new back break disks this month and a new water pump. She is regularly serviced (all details have been kept) by a reliable and trustworthy mechanic. She is also fully insured until October.

If your interested get in touch with me and I'll give you more details.

Lions, Tigers and Bears. Oh my!

Fine, I've seen parades of elephants and giraffes galore. But I just can't get sick of safaris. I saw another beautiful saddle-billed stork this safari and lots of black and white zebras (opposed to the white and black ones!) More importantly, I was having such a laugh with my friend; giggling, talking nonsense,sharing secrets and putting the world to right.

But I know that everyone has their own check list of what they want to spot on safari and my VIV, (very important visitor) Kerry, only had one wish for our safari. To see a lion. I nodded my head, "sure, no problem," I said.

I secretly had my doubts of finding them. Ugandan lions aren't always sleeping on fig trees for easy spotting.

However, within the first 15 minutes of entering Queen Elizabeth National Park, we found three sisters.

They even tried for a kill, but I think the land rover that came and parked in front of the girls put them off a bit (!) and the young Kob got away, unaware of being so lucky!

One of the sisters we spotted at the mating ground.

Once we checked 'lions' off the list, we were able to get back to other important holiday duties, like sunbathing and swimming in lakes!

Holey Moley

Everybody who knows Kampala, knows it is no shoppers paradise.

I have been looking forward to getting  few new pieces when I go home this summer. I have for a while. Now am I counting down the days until a mini shopping spree!

My VIV (very  Important Visitor), Kerry, came out for safari, looking lovely, dressed head to toe in Primarni (a shop I have only ever walked in and out of empty handed when I see the queues!) and made me feel quite unglamourous.

"No Robyn, (she would say) your clothes are nice. I just wouldn't wear the ones with holes in anymore! Did you wear that when your Mum visited!?" (Actually yes I did, in the secret hope that my mum would then buy some new clothes for me...it hasn't worked, yet, maybe in the summer!!!)

Or... (my glamorous visitor says)

"Eh,I think there is something missing from that bikini...like elastic!!! I really think it is time you throw out that bikini top."

Oh bugger, the hand washing really is ruining my clothes! I've just purchased a new bikini online and am hoping that I'll have a washing machine in Nairobi!

Reading my set literature for the holidays!

Benidorm or Bust!

"Why do you always go to strange places on holiday? What's wrong with Benidorm?"

Hahaha! A quote from a colleague of Kerry's that kept us laughing all safari!

That was...until...Kerry and I got sick. Really sick!

I haven't been that sick for a very long time. We were staying in the beautiful Mhingo Lodge, yet we spent most of the time either in bed or as a tag-team in the bathroom. (The lodge had a lovely bedroom and bathroom, so don't feel too sorry for us!)





At 3 am, Kerry said..."I should have gone to Benidorm!!!", she was feverish at the time and I hope she was therefore also delusional; she denies this comment. At 7am she said "I would rather be at work,"...an awful statement that I made her take back straight away!

We got better and we saw lions.

Good news, Uganda still beats Benidorm for top holiday destinations!!