Into Africa

On Sunday evening I travel to Africa, a continent I have never been to before.

I fly from Heathrow Airport near London to Cape Town in South Africa, a journey of roughly 6000 miles. It takes 11hrs 50mins to get there - the longest journey I have ever done in one go by quite some margin. I spend a week there, then head off to Zambia for 4 more days then come home again a jouney that in total takes 17hrs 35mins as I have to change planes in Johannesburg.

The link below shows the world map and the locations along the way. Hopefully this will work for you. I know at least one of you readily admits to being geographically challenged.

The Journey

I'll post pictures and stories as I travel and have access to the web. As always it will be lovely to hear from any of you reading this via comments, email, text messages etc. It can be very lonely travelling and it's always lovely to hear from you all.

This time won't be as lonely as my epic journey through Pakistan as I am with 3 colleagues from work for the first part of the week in South Africa and with others I know well in Zambia too.

The week in South Africa will be spent training and conversing with customers at the Organic Exchange Regional Conference, I imagine if it's anything like the Indian one it will be exhausting. The few days in Zambia I'll be looking at how to get data into our systems from further back down supply chains. Seeing if it's possible to get data from the farm level into our systems when Internet is all but unavailable and looking at the issues on the ground first hand.