Travelling, travelling, travelling, so there haven't been updates for a bit.  In fact, this is just to say that I'm back from a trip to Dublin for the very fun Mountains to Sea Festival, and off on Monday for a tour of Austria, Switzerland and Germany.  Details here, hope to meet a lot of German-speaking readers!

I'm afraid my trip to South Africa is no longer going to happen.  There was a whole lot of effort from a whole lot of people to make it work, but it just ended up being impossible this time (we really did try).  Which is a huge disappointment, but hopefully one day soon!

Greetings to the new commenters.  More soon...