Another guest blogger...

I was lucky enough to have another visitor from home earlier this month and she's kindly sent through her blog post! Photos to follow when I get to an internet cafe... Thanks Sarah

A holiday to Zambia in November is a bit extravagant, but highly recommended! The weather was wonderfully hot and sunny (mostly), which is a very welcome change from UK frost. On the downside, Victoria falls are rather unspectacular at this time of year, and the mangoes are tantalisingly unripe...

During my week-long stay in Livingstone I was properly able to see the crazy variety in Emily's life. We spent the weekend relaxing in the grounds of luxurious hotels by the Zambezi river, and I particularly enjoyed the random passing zebras and a small troop of little monkeys. Then on the weekdays Emily went off to her tiny office, which is a world apart from the colonial tourist experience.

One morning I did my own tiny bit of exploring Zambian life by visiting the main Veterinary centre in Livingstone. Pets are a foreign concept, but there are plenty of livestock and every home has a guard dog. I think I'll stick to being a UK vet for now; in Livingstone there are no diagnostic facilities at all, and the risk of getting exotic disease from a patient must be pretty high.

Almost every evening of my visit, Emily and I went out for dinner with a variety of her lovely new friends. On my last evening in Zambia, I actually met Emily's Lusaka friends without Emily, and went to a very surreal bonfire night party. Watching fireworks in flipflops is excellent. Three hours later I was on a plane to Heathrow (via Harare and Nairobi), and very glad that I was able to have such a wonderfully varied Zambian experience.

Thanks for having me Emily!