Priceless...

Leica 35mm f2 summicron-m £650 Leica 39mm filter £30 Tub of grease £1.50 Thinking you can fix a minor lens wobble and then dropping it on the floor as your hands are slippery from the grease, smashing the lens in to bits……..Priceless I feel really sick and very silly, repeat after me ‘SAM YOU ARE NOT A CAMERA ENGINEER!’ As i’m in Africa, I thought I should have maybe have a benefit concert for my broken len. We could call it LENS AID, maybe even put a charity single out at Christmas time. What do you say? I’m sure we could get Sir Bob...

The Real Africa...

I’m sorry I haven’t been in touch, finding net cafes is becoming very hard job. Here I am on the 29th April 2007, sitting in our tent writing my blog. On Friday morning we left the city of Pretoria to see the ‘real South Africa’, heading east towards the little bush town on the edge of the Kruger Park called Sabie. This would serve as our base to go sightseeing around Mpumalanga. About 50km out of Pretoria on the highway I got my real taste poverty. I saw my first Township, nothing really prepared for the size of these places and how these...

The Gay Blue Slug...

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I’ve Landed...

I’m in South Africa, the 1st thing that hits me about this place is that its a miss-match of all the countries I have been too so far. All the shops are laid out in strip malls just like in the US. The supermarkets have the feel of Spanish ones and the landscape from Jo-burg to Pretoria is, errr, well…. just like summer time in Essex. seriously. The sights I’ve already seen on the roads are incrediable, now I know why Britain has the MOT, some of the car we passed look like they are held together with glue and cardboard. Heehee (I’m glad i’m...