Hi Folks<
Here I am safe and sound back in England after a marvellous trip - and its just as cold dark and gloomy as the day I left! My odessy was suceesful beyond what I could have hoped for. I reached all the places on my itinery and some that were not and I felt safe and protected every step of the way. My only faillure was keeping up with the blog. After I left Johannesburg it was increasingly difficult to find connectivity. I found I was spending fruitless hours alone fighting my laptop when I should have been enjoying Africa and meeting people. So I gave up. However I kept a log and will write up blogs of each stage and post themover the next few weeks. So thanks for your patience and KEEP WATCHING.
Thank you also to followers who have signed up and contributers. Quite a lot has been sent to me offline and already I have over £1000 towards my target for helping a whole community work their way out of poverty. I will describe my visits to projects in detail but suffice to say now that from all I have seen I can say that SEND A COW DOES WHAT IT SAYS ON THE PACKET!
I loved being back in Africa and felt at home straight away. There were many changes of course - most of them positive and some quite amazing developments.
To set the scene, I am posting a few photos of BEFORE, taken from slides I took forty years ago when I was a volunteer in Zambia.
