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Some of you have asked for a Donate Now button to be added to the AFREAC website (thank you!) but, sadly it’s too expensive to set up. Bonolo just sent me this: ‘In order to make a contribution, your friends would need to download the World Remit app and link it with their account, and…
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Days 8 and 9 (Dan’s comments are italicized) Most people come to Africa for the wildlife, but of equal importance to us is to immerse ourselves in the culture. And that’s just as well as the wildlife is being rather elusive at the moment (due, probably, to the worst drought they’ve experienced in 40 years)!…
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Days 6 and 7 (Rhia’s comments are italicized) Yay! 🙌 We have a car… and now we need to learn the rules in Botswana. Not by reading and studying the laws, but by disobeying them at police check points. In all fairness, this was an impromptu police check point set up not 20 kms from…
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Day 5 (Rhia’s comments are italicized) Wherever you go in Botswana, so much innovation can be seen; from children making clothes for their dolls out of old, deflated balloons and paper to others setting up stores at the bottom of their gardens. To my delight, this innovation can also be seen in education as the…
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Day 4 (Dan’s comments are italicized) WOW! I know the journey was long but I’ve never experienced jetlag like this before!! My brain feels like it’s moving around in a thick sludge; thinking is difficult and reasoning is nigh impossible! But I suspect I have company (and no, I’m not referring to Dan); I think…
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Days 1-3: The Journey (Dan’s comments are italicized) That was a loooong journey…46 hours door-to-door and we’re exhausted… I can’t believe I’m back in Africa!! Although I’ve spent roughly three years working and backpacking in the southern-eastern parts of Africa, I was last here 33 years ago so don’t know what to expect any more!…
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Days 83 to 93 (Dan’s comments are italicized) I’ve put our time in N Wales into one post because it was more about spending time with family than visiting sights. My mum and dad were from N Wales and all three of us children were born there. We were particularly close to one of my…
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Days 80, 81, and 82 (Dan’s comments are italicized) With some sadness, we said goodbye to Brian and Cwmaman and headed off toward Chester. Chester is a very interesting city as it was a stronghold during Roman times and continued to be an important city through the middle ages to the present. On top of…
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Days 76, 77, 78, and 79 Rhia’s comments are italicized Our Stay with old Interact friends in Aberdare ended, but we moved just three miles away to Cwmaman, to visit our brother-in-law, Brian. Cwmaman is a tiny village that’s part of Aberdare that developed around a coalmine…but it’s a great jumping off point for many…
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Days 72, 73, 74 and 75 (Dan’s comments are italicized) It’s strange being back in the place I spent my youth. In some ways, it hasn’t changed at all but in other ways, I can barely recognize it. My dad was the minister (preacher) of Siloa Chapel from 1969 til 1986 when he retired. He…
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So, I don’t think I even saw all of thes posts as I was in the middle of being uprooted at the time! Hope this comment gos through for you as I’m really looking forwrd to this year’s adventures!
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I love seeing your travels and am so jealous! Call when you get back home. Love you both, Gwen
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