Home 29th May

No early start today – we are all going in different directions on different flights around the world. We’ve all said our goodbyes. Two small planes collect us at the local airstrip and fly to Maun. Flying over what looks like a tidy but very ordinary town I realise that we have seen nothing of what life is like in Botswana.

From Maun some are going to Johannesberg and others are extending their tour to Cape town.  I catch the flight from Johannesberg to London arriving at five-twenty-seven in the morning and home by nine am. There is time to unpack, do washing and have thirty minutes snooze. I’ve booked a one pm swim with my club and am apprehensive. Surprisingly, I haven’t lost too much fitness. It’s good to be back in the Fifty Metre pool at The London Aquatic Centre.