Zambia: updates

Lots of little updates; kit has been begged, borrowed and even bought in a few cases. There is a huge stack in our house of all the items we need to take. I'm not sure we can fit it all on our backs. Weight testing on Tom and Anna has shown the level os moans rises proportionally to the weight they are carrying and that if you push them over with their packs on they can't stand up again. Not helpful in a busy airport.

The most expensive item and curiously the smallest has been the anti-malaria tablets - they've cost a small fortune. Anna's been practicing the art of swallowing tablets, vitamins I hasten to add, but hasn't cracked the technique yet. Any advice?

We have our fetching yellow Bookbus t-shirts now. Jo the Bookbus coordinator flew out last week to get the bus up and running again after the rainy season. She's also going to the north of the country to establish a route up there for later this year.

The Hopkin's are a wonderful family who read about our adventure in the local paper and get in touch. They've spent a lot of time in Zambia and recently spent 6 weeks there with their 3 children. They came round to visit last week which was great for Toma dn Anna to quiz their children about Zambia, food, snakes, people and camping. Really helpful for all of us to hear first hand experience.      

We're going to do our first packing dry-run this week. Plus we've found we've got a weight limit for the internal flights of 15kg. yikes. More posts soon.

Jim