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Written by Jill Masterton   
Tuesday, 07 April 2009 15:17
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We met a lady named Maureen Hight in the bar.  We got on well and she invited us to stay with her in Parklands.  We had supper at the Mona Lisa pizza parlour in Parklands.  Next day I tried to get hold of Gill Wright, a cattle farmer I knew when I lived there, but she was on holiday in the UK.  We drove to our old house in Eton Way – now Nationalist Way.  Luckily it was being renovated so the workmen allowed us inside and I could show Otto where I lived from 1965 to 1969.  A small three-bedroomed place.  The anthill is still there, but it has eroded and is smaller and all the fruit trees are gone along with the hedge and the stairs leading up to the “summit”.  We found our house in Freedom Avenue, but it has a big wall around it and was inaccessible.  It looks much smaller than I remembered it!  That night we took Maureen and her daughter, Ellen, who swims for Zambia, out to dinner at the Arabian Nights restaurant at the top of the hill at Eton Way.  What fabulous food – I had impala curry – soft and delicious!

Completely over Kitwe, we thanked Maureen and Ellen for their hospitality and drove to Lusaka to meet Heather Chalcraft and return Mark’s cellphone which he had loaned us when ours died!  We got to Lusaka at lunchtime on a very cold day and after finding a lekker spot just outside Kabwe called Maplehurst where we had a full English breakfast.  This restaurant was run by a Scottish guy who came to Zambia to work on the mines 41 years ago – the same time I went to Zambia.

We stopped over at Fringilla Farm to get the best boerewors in Africa (I think) and some fillet steak.  We met Andrew Woodley who runs the place and he gave us some wors to give to Heather – they are all a big scattered family of white Zambians up there!  Found Heather at the Lowdown offices and we stayed at her house which she was moving out of.  She joined us for dinner and organised us two days on a houseboat at Sinazongwe on Kariba.

Next morning it was on the road again to Sinazongwe.  We met Wayne and boarded the houseboat with six other passengers – overlanders from London.  One Australian, Louise; a Norwegian, Audi; a Kiwi couple Tony and Sharon and another couple, Nick from South Africa and Renee from New Zealand.  All under 30 but good people, although a little tame after our Zambian friends!  The weather was abysmal and cold and the lake was very choppy.  We tried fishing, not very successfully and Otto went off the next day to a crocodile farm.  I stayed on the houseboat.  We ate supper on board (our Fringilla fillet steak) and Nick set up his Ipod and we danced into the late hours on deck.



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