Thank You !

Over the 13 months we have many people we'd like to thank - for the small things, for the big things, for everything...

In EGYPT - Thanks for Ruben and Natalie for the company, and for Ahmed for the tour of Alexandria !

In SUDAN - Thanks for Waleed and Mohammed for their "nothing's-too-much-trouble" style hospitality! You guys deserve the best in life and we hope that we will see you again!

In SOMALIA - Thanks for T's dad for wading through Geneva's red light district during his lunch break to send us the much needed dollars when we were immobile !

In KENYA - Thanks for Tom for his wonderful hospitality, to Natascha for her company and for taking us out to Ngong where I lost lots of money on the horses. I'd also like to thank Natascha and M for looking after me when I was at my lowest with the lip infection...

In UGANDA - Thanks to Mzungu Derek, Angela and the girls for their company in Murchison Falls, we had a wonderful time with you - all the best for your hostel in Entebbe and hope that we can sign the guestbook some day !

In CONGO - Thanks to Ismael and Beatrice for the breakfast and tour of Aru - best of luck for the school, it really is an inspirational project. Hopefully we will be able to come back to your some day.

In TANZANIA - Thanks for Freda for your company !! We may have had our differences in looking at things but hopefully we learnt from each other and it would be a pleasure to travel with you again someday !

In MALAWI - Thanks to Liam and Kathryn for their hospitality !

In MALAWI and ZAMBIA - A big thanks to T's parents for taking over the planning and taking us to possibly the most relaxing house in Malawi and possibly the best national park in Africa.

In ZIMBABWE, BOTSWANA, NAMIBIA, SOUTH AFRICA - Another big thanks to M's parents for their company and for believing in our judgement enough to not only come to Zimbabwe, but drive us all around it. And for putting up with two night buses in a row and that bowl of mopane worms!

In SOUTH AFRICA - Thanks to Christine and Nik for their great hospitality, and to the girls in Stellenbosch for putting is up at very short notice! Thanks also to the Davies family for putting us up and looking after us so well! Thanks to Lynette for taking us to the rugby game in Durban and the ensuing night out! And of course a massive thanks to the Strand Gang - Carl, "Kak Barman" Chris and Estelle for keeping us watered, Ivan for his wonderful hospitality and THAT enormous braai, Graham for his amazing tales of adventure and being T's partner in crime against Italian football, Jason for those deep late night conversations and that lift to Cape Town, Gerard for his company and lifts back in the dodgymobile and of course for impressing us with his snorting skills, Stefan and Ruann for putting up with us, Addie, Matthew and Lorraine for the day out at the beach.

In SWAZILAND - Thanks to Erno and Riku for sharing the ride to Mbabane ("Route not possible") and showing us around, leading us to Bombasos and to "Phoenix" for those enchiladas. Thanks to Laura for more company and taking us to Bholoja and for tales of the Umhlanga... One day, maybe you will really become Queen of Swaziland!

ALL ALONG THE TRIP - Thanks to all of you for your company and for the wonderful memories - Bast and Grant, Mav and Dixon, Rui, Sean, the Crazy Slovenian Motorbike Gang of Grega, Boris and Josko, Cole and Amanda.

And of course thank you to all of the Africans which made this trip what it was. We may not have spoken the same language as you, and if we did, we may never have known your names. We may have known you for a minute or for a day. But you have made this trip what it was, and it is for you that we want to return some day.