Great White Hippo

“Christ, what was that?” I’m startled awake and blindingly look around, trying to get my bearings. There is a crack of light filtering in through the window so I know it’s early morning. I realise I’m in Uganda, in a safari lodge, and Gwen is sitting bolt upright beneath her mosquito net...

Haggling

We are heading to the market. The excitement levels are high as we anticipate buying woven baskets, handmade jewelllry, colourful sarongs and bags, authentic looking masks and god knows what other African delights and cheap tat to fill our now empty luggage for the return journey. Gwen has been struck down...

A Village Stroll

Our tour guide is Augustin.  We spend over three hours with him, meeting his family, being shown around his garden where vegetables and fruit are grown in abundance, and then taking a stroll through the local village to see life as it happens in rural Uganda. We are I’m Jinja, three hours east of...

Safari

We have a 5.30 am start for our safari trip, after a restless and sticky night.  The heat is intense and we spent most of the night tossing and turning, trying to find a cool place to lie, whilst listening to the noises outside: crickets and frogs; unidentifiable night birds; and wonderfully, the sound of...

Oh to be a side dish!

Gwen, Miriam and I head to lake Victoria to go kayaking for the afternoon. Our guide is Abraham and we know immediately from the glint in his eye that he’s going to be good craic. Life jackets are fitted and adjusted and we then have the very important task of deciding how we pair up in the kayaks....