We are still taking it easy near Lake Malawi doing some pleasure flights and staying in a great lodge with fantastic food (the excuse is we are getting our strength up for Mozambique!). Took the lodge manager for a very pleasant evening flight yesterday and today we are going to a game reserve. Back “on the road” again tomorrow and hopefully (permits permititng) into Mozambique where we are expecting communication will be even more difficult.
Checked our emails yesterday and thank you for all your messages. Sorry we are finding it difficult to reply.
Jim and John (via Ingrid)
Comment by John_Cresswell (2003-11-28 12:41:56)
Thanks for the good wishes - hope you enjoyed the oz vid. If we have managed to get of the events of this trip on film it should be an interesting video.
Comment by John_Cresswell (2003-11-28 12:44:20)
Sounds exciting - we had hippos through our camp a couple of nights ago ! Luckily they didn’t sit on the planes ;-) See ya at xmas JC
Comment by crezzi (2003-11-28 12:46:42)
Cheers mate - hopefully there shud be some pics by now & maybe some more later. See you in Oz ‘04 JC
Comment by crezzi (2003-11-28 12:50:47)
We always knew officialdom would be much more of a stress this time & so it has proved. On the whole it couldve been much much worse though. Weve just been affected again - had to change our route (again) due to not being allowed to exit through the airport we wanted. see todays diary for more info.
Weather can be summed up as headwinds & very hot ! Hoping for tailwinds when we reach the coast. Total flying so far about 50 hours & > 2000nm. See ya soon JC
Comment by crezzi (2003-11-28 12:52:13)
No worries mate - i think of you during every pre-flight ;-)
Comment by crezzi (2003-11-28 12:54:05)
Todays first day for ages temp has been below 40 so a little warmer than yorks ! Its definately been an experience/education/adventure. Have got your licence back yet - done any flying ?
Comment by crezzi (2003-11-28 12:55:57)
You knew I’d look after jules ! Yep loads of piccs to bore you with & more tall stories tahn you would believe ! CU JC
Comment by Laney (2003-11-28 13:24:09)
This all looks like so much fun, sorry I didn’t make it for the little flight with John and Rob a few months back. and good luck to John and Julie in Feb 04. Hello Ant & Joe.
Comment by crezzi (2003-11-28 12:58:48)
wasn’t there a line in black adder about “i wish you were there instaed of me baldrick” ? only joking its been an amazing experience & youd have def enjoyed it mate . Maybe next time ?
Comment by crezzi (2003-11-28 13:00:43)
cheers rach & glad you liked the pics. don’t worry theres many more to come ! see you soon jc
Comment by tonyShellis (2003-11-26 21:33:02)
what do you think this is a holiday !!
Nice to see your having a very good time
i dont suppose you happened across any of them diamonds did ya ! wink wink
all the best for a safe trip
tone
Comment by crezzi (2003-11-28 13:05:25)
flew over plenty of mines back in sa & namibia but you got no idea how personal those guys get if you have an outlanding ! You not going to propose are you ;-)
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