Tazara Railway

Lawrence traversed the great Tazara Raliway route on the way back from Dar in Tanzania- for 48 sweaty hours - til he reached Kapiri Mposhi, just a few miles from our home in Zambia. Communist grandeur sets the scene on arrival in every station: This is a bridge, and a cloud, and a train

Lorenzo en route!

Morning stretches, somewhere near the border

Soldiers hitching a ride

Rainy season welcomed the arrival of Zambian territory!

Lawrence travelled with half of the peace corps stationed in Zambia- and here descending in one of his new bearded friends

Dar Es Salaam

Beautiful Dar-Es-Salaam was the venue for Molly's conference with young African leaders from all over- being able to watch the sea from the conference window was amazing- if slightly agonising- in 40 degree heat! Raj travelled with Lawrence to join Molly for the last weekend, and taste the local delicacy of fresh coconut milk. Unfortunately Raj face planted his...

Moz n Loz BeachSide....

A dhow setting out to catch fish

Nat from Uganda on an idyllic island near Dar

Raj posing on his private speed boat- why wait in line, when you can hire one for the day?

Cyclist taking the easy way out in maniac Dar traffic

Birthday Bloggage

It's Raj's Birthday! We celebrated by a group trip to Nsobe, with canoeing, massages, an addictive traditional game involving black seeds and plenty of healthy competition... Mini Raj- better known as his nephew Priank came with us, along with the lovely Maggie, Roshni, Tom and Segun

Back at the ranch- if we don't appear bang on time for the daily walk, Cuba sulks on the doorstep til we pay him some attention

Molly basking in some not very rainy season like sunshine on the farm

Whenever we stop for a rest we get the slobbery greetings from not one but 3 dogs

Meat and (no) Veg- a typical Zambian dinner which is carnivore tastic- if you look carefully at the rice you can spot a pepper hiding

Sunset in Lusaka, caught on a massive truck departing for the Copperbelt

January Jamboree

This is a picture of Tobacco drying in sheds. On the right is the Lucky Strike Shed then next to it is Silk Cut (ultra mild), then it's Pall Mall menthol and right at the end there is Golden Virginia. In the forefront of course is Marlboro Man... and dogs.

This is part of the set background for the new breakfast show that just started on Muvi TV, designed by Lawrence. Munzye presents the fashion and entertainment section. Austin Powers eat your heart out!

This lady sells delicious pineapples. By the way, it's a fruity bonanza here at the moment. Molly even made Mango flapjacks on Sunday and stuffed a roast chicken with Mango stuffing! Both rather scrumptious.

Molly and Lawrence out on a walk, tobacco leaves in the background. What you don't see is our toes just loving the warm muddy puddles.

Lawrence loves posing in the new shades.

Guapo doing his stealthy look in the long grass at sunset.

dance4life and then just chiiiiill on the Lower Zambezi

Saturday night saw 2000 teenagers descend on the Olympic Centre in Lusaka for a concert organised by Molly - it was called 'Run 4 your Life' oops, I mean 'dance4life'.

The kids had a brilliant time and made Zambia proud on the live satellite link up to the rest of the world
So after all that we decided to head to Kanyemba Lodge to recover. Somehow though, someone always talks you into getting up early when you go to this sort of safari place. So here's Molly looking over the mighty Zambezi at dawn wondering why instead of being in bed she is about to get on a boat to see animals.

We saw Hippos cooling off in the water.

And other sweaty mammals paddling about.

There was quite a scarey elephant who was churning up dirt and flapping his massive ears at us.

And Molly got a little freaked out.

But she found a nice spot to relax afterwards at the bushcamp.

And Moll and Loll lived happily ever after on the boat, until the engine packed up and they drifted quite close to the jaws of a massive croc and they decided to call it a day and head home.

Batty Blog

Our little car was very brave on a trip to Kasanka National Park, crossing a river and everything... Molly loving the noccies

At this time of year millions of straw coloured fruit bats migrate from Congo and nest in kasanka- it is batty heaven

We got up extra early and seemed very happy about it, to join batters of the world to admire this amazing spectacle

Bats, bats, bats- they're lovely little things

This is Segun- over from UK for a while and chilling here on the lodge verandah overlooking a lake of hippos

This might be a kite- it's large anyway and it was on our walking safari

Lawrence poised for action on the boat cruise...sadly it started to rain just after this and every form of wildlife disappeared so this look of slight terror was unjustified...actually Tom said he saw a large croc but after we got so wet waiting for it to reappear that we had to change every item of clothing, we started to doubt his sanity


On the above mentioned walking safari we saw a snake- maybe it's a black mamba or maybe it's a boomslang but believe us it's dangerous

Our lovely friend at work, Mary, got married at the weekend and was treated to a surprise concert by Mozegator, the dude with the dreads who jumps up and down a lot and kept us very entertained

Tyre-ing weekend

Someone stole some tyres from one of the tractors on the farm this weekend so while Raj went looking high and low for the culprit, we decided to cool off in the lake...
We have just about got over our fear of crocodiles, however, when a huge water monitor lizard swims past you it's still a little freaky, and it turns out Molly really can swim quite fast (for the shore) when she wants to.

Cuba loves mucking in on the farm.

It was Diwali on Saturday night and the Indian community in Kabwe pulled off a truely memorable evening with amazing fireworks, home cooked Indian cuisine and dance displays by the children which was a darn sight better than the dance display that Molly and Lawrence tried to pull off around 3 am.

On Diwali new year's day Raj drove Molly and Lawrence and their friend Kate up to Nsobe lodge to recover from hangovers.

While Molly got a massage Lawrence tried in vain to rid himself of a stubborn headache.

Molly, blissed out, hoping next weekend doesn't have to be as exhausting as this one was.