We have a couple of days in Harare before setting off for Mana. We are based yet again at the tranquil York Lodge and have a packed programme. First to see mum’s dear friend Jane Soper, a Zimbabwean she/we knew from Nairobi days. I want to give her a copy of The Boy from Boskovice so we have hired a driver for the afternoon to take us there, via various abortive shopping forays, and thence to a book launch.
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View from our tent showing the very low level of the Zambezi, normally flowing freely here
After months of planning, we gather in York Lodge. Taking inspiration from a bus we drove past in Harare, I have named the new service, Vicky’s Logistics – as it really has been quite an operation! The dream team consisting of John and Hil, Fi and Richard and our beloved Rick set off from Charles Prince, with a hitch-hiker on board, none other than Nick Murray, owner of Vundu Camp and advisor on Attenborough’s episode on the wild dogs.
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