Monday, January 08, 2007

With the family in Zambia

Being home in July was an amazing time- after a few days in Lusaka with mum and dad i had an oppourtunity to hop a plane down to the bush to chill out with my brothers who were busy with a client. It was magical up in the air, in a small light craft plane bumping up through the atmosphere. Before we landed on the runway in the bush where Hamish had driven to pick me up, (and deposit the client’s wife and son)- we had to circle the runway just to scare off any wildlife or to check out that no big holes had made an appearance since they can be slightly detrimental to a safe touchdown :)

The camp is stunning- a lot of hard work went into the making of it, and it sits alongside a river populated with hippo and even occasionally visited by elephants. There is a great lake close-by where we went and did some fishing- but must of the time I lolled about the camp working on a paper in the morning and when we had to vacate the lunch table at noon I used it as an excuse to put the books away and head to the bar cabinet! I am a Manning that’s for sure ☺

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