The flights are booked - the accomodation paid for & only the car hire to organise. I have just had an enormous tax bill - so I may be on a tighter budget then I had orininally anticipated. Though it is all charactar building I suppose!

So now it is real & I am a tad aprehensive. I hope I can remember my way around. Being a "girly girl" - my sense of direction isn't good & my map reading even worse. In the UK - I find stopping & asking a nice man - usually does the trick. But looking lost & stupid in South Africa is not a good idea - so maybe a course in map reading would be a good "pre trip" idea?

When Christmas is over - I will organise ny schedule. As I don't do "nothing" well - I will need to ensure that I have something to occupy myself most days. So me - my guitar - my lap top & a full diary will head off from Heathrow on February 21st to Jo'burg - then on to Durban.

AGHHHH