Catch up Blog No. 3

Tuesday 27th June - the dreaded day dawned when we had to get packed up ready to leave. We have spent such a wonderful time here in Namibia and we are genuinely reluctant to go home. I collected Bex early from the Ark where she had taken some of the girls to school at 6 a.m. I was really pleased that Auny Nellie's husband Koos had waited at the Ark to see me - he was on his way to work at Windhoek. He had been such a help at the garden with the borehole and I was really pleased to see him again before we left. Then we got the packing out of the way and called at the Ark for some final photographs and farewells - some pretty tearful! Having said our farewells and prayed we headed for Windhoek for some last minute shopping and then got to the airport around 4.45 which gave us time to return the car, check in and relax before the flight. I shall pass over the flight in relative silence, because while I don't mind flying in the least, I hate long flights and particularly long night flights - I find it impossible to sleep. We arrived in Gatwick at 5.45 and having freshened up and consumed some coffee we caught the Reading train at 7.55 getting to Cardiff at 11.30. That concludes the detail, but I hope to post some impressions of aspects of the experience in the next week or so and also provide some links to some of the photographs I took. So thanks again to all who prayed for us and supported us during what turned out to be a wonderful experience. Flash