Our wild African hound is at last here with us in the UK. As I type, his furry head rests on my feet, tired out after an intensive ball throwing and pond dipping session (those poor tadpoles!). It...
Ready 4 Business – Festivals / Events / Pop Up Shop / Promotion Note, eBay auction is on now and ends 1st April 2012 at 9:10pm History: We have traded at festivals and events across the U...
On 1st January 2012, the rules for bringing dogs into the UK changed! The new pet immigration laws mean that Bow Wow has not had to go through the trauma of quarantine. Instead he has been having a g...
We’ve been back in the UK for a while now but still haven’t shared all of our last overland trip with you. After the Vic Falls, we drove to the Zimbabwean city of Bulawayo. We camped in a...
Tatler magazine is always a must read, full of irony, wit and glamour. However, we doubt there are many township strays who have graced its pages If you get a chance, pick up the lastest edition (A...
Quit Your Job.Buy A Ticket.Get A Tan.Fall In Love.Never Look Back. Travelling through Africa with our dog, Bow Wow, has been an experience we will never forget. Sadly this adventure mus...
T H E B A N D 4 H O P E P R O J E C T We’re always on the look out for craftspeople who we can develop products with to sell through our shop, Vagabond Van. Through ongoing trade, we hope that ...
We’re back in Britain trading with our shop on wheels, Vagabond Van and launching our new project, Band4Hope. Here’s a snap shot of Vagabond Van life. W E L C O M E * T O *...
While trading with Vagabond Van at Wilderness Festival last weekend, the guys from WinkBall filmed us describing The Band4Hope Project. Ok, so there’s no doubt that Lucie and I definitely need ...
We are currently back in Britain trading with Vagabond Van at the summer festivals and launching The Band4Hope Project. We’ll return to Cape Town in a few months to embark on the drive b...
We met Tico by the Epupa Falls in Namibia. He told us that his necklace is made of shells from the ocean. He began wearing it when his father died. It is traditional that a year after a fathers death...
Usually, the most stand out moments of our journey have been unplanned and have cost very little. Like the magical evening when we called bush babies from their tree top slumber and fed them gooey ba...
Lake Kariba was made by damming the mighty Zambezi River and flooding the valley which was home to a people called the Tonga tribe. After the flooding they reluctantly resettled on higher ground. The...
"What the?!" - We captured Bow Wows first encounter with hippos at Charara Fishing Camp by Lake Kariba. He was utterly transfixed by these strange stone like creatures, blowing bubbl...
Improved roads leading to the Epupa Falls in Namibia mean that it has become easily accessible by tourists and their influence on fragile Himba culture is apparent. It is unfortunate that their way o...
Recently we came across this humorous but meaningful quote: ‘Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold – but so does a hard-boiled...
We kept our eyes peeled for shining stones and glamorous ghosts as we explored the deserted diamond town of Kolmanskop in Namibia that is now almost lost to the dunes. In its heyday, Kolmansko...
Natural selection through the ages has carved the Himbas impressive physiques and allows them to pull off rather daring ensembles, like this one, with aplomb. Refreshingly, Himba men are not shy of t...
The Chinhoyi Caves are situated in a national park a couple of hours drive from Harare. We had fingers and paws crossed that they’d allow us to camp there with a dog. Thankfully, after a few li...
‘Travelling memories, connecting people, transforming hope to reality’ When you’re stuck in a Land Rover for hours every day, it’s amazing the ideas you come up with. We’...
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We arrived just in time to watch the new day breaking over the great crests of sand. These are dynamic, shape shifting dunes. Newly sculpted daily, ever changing with the wind and light...
So much of Zimbabwe’s once productive farmland lies dormant since Mugabe’s redistribution of land. (An incredible documentary to watch is Mugabe and the White African – it is a stor...
One things for sure, Himbas know how to accessorise. New fashions spread from settlement to settlement and so their style is always developing. Married Himba women tie a piece of goat leather ...
This shop owner in Sesfontein is from the Herero tribe whose most valued commodity is cattle. Herero women wear Victorian style full length dresses with hats made from rolled cloth that represent the...
Condos in the sky on our way to Namibia. Communal weavers are not in to bungalows. These social birds much prefer to join their nests together. Very cosy, however, there is the danger t...
East of Harare, in a pretty little agricultural town, lives a journalism graduate and Jason Bourne fan called Joseph who makes jewellery out of cow horn and bone. We came across his work at a market ...
We returned to Harare and stayed with our Zimbabwean friends, Bruce and Nicola. It was fascinating to hear about how people coped during the desperate days of hyperinflation, when the enormously deva...
Our slick, diamante-studded guide called Salmon at the Petrified Forest in Namibia. Similar Posts:Late for Church in Bulembu, Swaziland
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