London, Lusaka and now... Livingstone!

I know it’s been a while since we updated this, but we have neither fallen off the face of the planet nor has anything else drastic happened. We’ve just had a few slow days in Lusaka (don’t judge us – I think we needed the break) so thought we’d save the update until something more was happening. So now we’re in Livingstone (we arrived this afternoon after an eight-hour bus ride) there should be a lot more occurring for us to write about!

Just to fill you in on the past few days: I think the last time we wrote on Monday, we were lounging around and considering an Italian dinner and a movie. We caught a taxi to the shopping mall where we’d seen a recommended restaurant in the guidebook, but it turned out to have closed down. Eva’s pasta craving needed to be sated, so we wandered down to the next mall where we’d seen an Italian previously. As soon as we walked in, a massive coincidence occurred: the first person we met was Matthew, one of the South Africans we’d been with the previous evening – as it turned out he was the manager. We had a good meal and then watched After Earth at the cinema opposite (probably wouldn’t have been a normal choice for either of us, but choice was limited and we had a good time).

Whilst spending time with the South African guys on Sunday, it was revealed that Matthew was a very good cook. Fortunately for us (we are jammy devils), this ended up with us being invited round again on Tuesday to experience this wonderful cuisine. We’d done nothing but laze around the pool again on Tuesday daytime (Eva is looking enviably tanned, unlike myself) so when Ryan picked us up in the afternoon we were feeling very content – especially at the prospect of having dinner cooked for us. However as soon as the cooking was about to commence, the power went out. Never fear – what is a barbecue for after all, with Guy to cook the meat (although apparently the term is ‘bry’ in South African). The pièce de resistance was Matthew’s garlic bread – easily the tastiest of its kind I’ve ever consumed.

So now we’re up to date with today. We’ve been up since 6am in order to catch the bus, but we’ve just been out for dinner so at least we’re fed (we attempted to get crocodile, but apparently they’d run out so we had to make do with pasta). Accommodation for the next few nights is in a 16-person dorm – not sure how much sleep we’ll get.

The plan tomorrow is to venture over to Victoria Falls, so be prepared for some good photos!

Lots of love and hope everyone’s had a good week so far.