They won't! Its REAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLY expensive cause everything is imported. Like London prices. But worse. And you have to know someone to get fresh dairy. Luckily his parents know people with a cow.

weird how vastly different a place can be just across one border

when are you travelling?

I will send you good vibes when you are there so you don't get caught in a random uprising.

Over Christmas- leaving the UK on the 18th and arriving back on the 2nd January. It is quite random how quickly it drops off over the border. His parents used to do a 6 hour round trip to Botswana on the weekend to food shop...

And thanks onewaynotgrrl, since I have a British passport and none of them do (Huns the lot of them), I will not only be first up against the wall if Mugabe gets ****ed off, I'll be the ONLY one up against the wall. Foreign Office website says plan a way to get the **** out of there fast if needs be. Reassuring.

you can come to my house if there's trouble