Last day in South Africa

Chip settles down to wait for our return in four months time...

Angie is on guard already...

Early on Saturday morning, while waiting for younger son, Angus and Amanda to arrive (they drove us up to Johannesburg to catch our flight to Khartoum), I wandered around my garden one last time. Of course, a couple of pets accompanied me and some even got into the pictures I was taking!

Megan wonders whether she should eat some of the surplus cookies I put out for them in the garage

While enjoying a last cup of tea at Oliver Tambo International, Angus had fun testing my new camera which has a very strong zoom lens. (More about the camera later)

We had delicious Strawberry Cheesecake and Black Forest cake, which all four of us shared (and I forgot to photograph!) with a last cup of tea before boarding our flight

Our Ethiopian flight took off on schedule, we made our connection in Addis Ababa easily (our luggage was even tranferred) and we arrived in Khartoum at 11.30pm. By 12.15, my passport had been stamped with my visitors' visa (Grant, who is a permanent resident of the Sudan, goes straight through and had collected our luggage) and we were soon on our way to our "other" home in Omdurman!

Thanks to everyone for their kind wishes and travel blessings.

Beautiful Free State

Last week while riding out to a friend's farm for a cup of tea, I snapped this beautiful scene

For more scenes around the world, click here.

Back to the Sudan

As this post is aired this morning, we will be on our way to Johannesburg. We are travelling up by car (Angus and Amanda are driving us) and will catch the 14h15 Ethiopian Airways flight to Khartoum via Addis Ababa. If our departure time is delayed (which it often is) we may miss our connection in Addis Ababa and have to stay overnight. When this happened to me on my trip in January, I spent the next day touring this beautiful Ethiopian city with a in a taxi. You can read about this here, if you wish.


As soon as we have set up our Sudanese Internet connection, I will be back online to blog, read blogs and comment.


Until then, may you all be blessed and remain safe in the Lord.