Adventurous mission to Mzuzu ~MALAWI~

Sunday afternoons spent at the lake are a definite highlight of our week. Tim is happy at work and loving his job, the kids are settled at school and I have special time with my baby in the week. At times it is lonely, but we have so much to be thankful for. We had a lovely weekend in Dwangwa with the Bootes, when you live in a place like this you end up saying a lot more hello's and goodbye's than is normal. So we say hello to David and Neline but goodbye to Darran and Mae, Jonah and Leila. It was a sad goodbye because our friendship had so much potential and they are off to Australia which is VERY far away. The end of a season that had only just begun. We loved exploring the trail that they made on the sugar estate down in Duangwa. They even had their own golf course! The second season that came to an end is mango season! The third season to end is the season of having a baby who stays where I put him!  The chicks growing up very quickly! Friday afternoon treat with the Broug...

  Granny and Grampa came to visit again and we popped to the lake for the day before our trip to Zambia to take the car out of the Country. The water was perfectly clear and calm. Our local Santa! Lily reckoned his beard wasn't real because she could see the strings. Setting off on our 370km trip to the beautiful South Luangwa in Zambia. We left at 5am hoping to get there in good time. Unfortunately we got a guy called Patrick at the border and I think he was hoping for some financial motivation to speed things up because it took us 4 hours to pay for road tax!  Everything else was smooth and him taking 4 hours to do something that usually takes 10 minutes was utterly ridiculous! A slight damper on our experience, but we eventually made it to our campsite 11 hours later!  The problem with corruption in these places is that bribes become an expectation. The Malawian side was very efficient and there were QR codes to rate the service. I think Patrick appreciated that I wasn...