Hello again,

Since the last blog it has been a series of fairly long drives and a few good screenings. We are now in Malawi and it is so stunningly beautiful and lush here I cannot get over it. But before I gush on about that I'll try and recap the last few days since I blogged which was when we were in Arusha, Tanzania.

These first photos are of the Flamingo 4000 a creation my cameraman Jeandre came up with in Kenya. It may not look much but its the height of technical genius and is a housing for his Nikon D90 camera which we have been using to get driving shots when it is strapped on to the side of one of the Africa Goal cars.





Here are a few snaps from one of the matches screened in Tanzania just outside of a town called Morogoro. It was a big turn out and a beautiful spot but just off one of the main trucking routes so HIV is a big issue there. The AG crew teamed up with a local NGO there and gave out vuvuzelas and t-shirts etc. There was even a live band there which resulted in lots of dancing and excitement from the community.




Where's wally!



After Morogoro we had a long drive up into the mountains past lots of huge Baobab trees and baboons! I don't have any photos sadly as I was driving the whole time! We arrived in a small town whose name totally alludes me at the moment! The match was screened in a huge walled off pitch from where you could still see mountains surrounding it. There were some very cute kids there. The one below followed me everywhere for the day and constantly wanted to be photographed.









Once the car was sorted we found a hotel...



On our way to the next destination one of the AG team cars water pipe decided to break so we had a very long and dull afternoon in a small town in the middle of nowhere. We had to wait for a man in a town 200km away located the replacement part and got a bus to us so it could be fitted. However we managed got to check out some local street food which was bits of beef cooked for way to long in vats of bubbling oil and fat! Didn't look to good, but some of the lads on the trip enjoyed it!

As I said at the start we are now in Malawi, it was a good 8 hour drive to get here but the border crossing was uneventful and we are staying in a fantastic hostel right on the edge of Lake Malawi. My crew are camping and I have the luxury of a hut with a double bed and balcony all to myself! All I can hear as I type this is the waves of the lake lapping at the stilts my hut is standing on! finally we have a chance to stay somewhere more than one night and do some much needed laundry and even a bit of chilling for the film crew! Yay!

jonny drinking Special Brew - generally considered as tramp juice in the UK but apparently considered pretty fine here! I'm not sure I'm convinced.


My view






Relaxing on my balcony! Oh Yeah!