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Tuesday 12th September Yesterday evening we had stayed at a hotel right by the airport in Jo’burg, so we woke up there to our alarm going off at 5:15am. We got ready, packed up and went down for a very early breakfast before getting the shuttle to the airport for our flight with Safairs at…

Saturday 9th September We got our usual 5:30am wake-up call from Brian, got ready and met the others to go out on our morning drive. On the drive we saw a few new species: Crested Franklin, Brown hyena and the Southern booboo. Hyenas are hard to catch  on camera as they quickly run off, but…

Thursday 7th September:Every morning we get a 5:30am wake up call from Brian for the morning game drive. I was already awake, excited for our first morning drive after yesterday afternoons drive being so amazing, but the phone rang and so I woke Harry up. We quickly got ready and met at the meeting area…

Monday 4th SeptemberWe were all packed up and ready to go… Our taxi arrived at 3:15pm – it was finally happening! We got driven to the airport with plenty of time to spare, as we had already checked in. We (well, dad) had managed to secure firm business class seats which Harry was very excited…

Thursday 20th JulyDressed in my wifey jumper, we got on the road at about 8:45am to head for The Tawny Hotel in Stoke-on-Trent. With a cuppa and toilet stop, the drive took us just under 4 hours in total. During the journey we reminisced about memories from the wedding, wishing we could do it all…