Lesotho

The Drive from Cape Town to Bloemfontein was no problem, a stay overnight in the Southern Sun hotel and an early start the next morning to Lesotho.

Are first border post took a lot longer than necessary as we were trying to be too formal with all the paperwork, which delayed us at customs – first lesson learnt – keep it simple!

Being our first country from South Africa, everyone was trying to find their feet and finalise last minute things.  The team were all new to each other, two of which I had only met a couple of days before our departure. We were all learning each other’s ways, where things get packed in the car, who likes what to drink and eat…

I knew what I wanted, and had to be achieved in each country but still needed to work out a couple of things and how I would actually make things happen on the ground. The preparation time before we left was very short and things would need to sorted as we went along.

We took in a few of the sights like Mohale Dam, Matesyane Falls– gave out reading glasses at a local clinic.

Our first function and rugby clinic didn’t quite go according to plan due to strong winds and torrential rain – oh well, you can control the weather….

Due to the send off in South Africa, we only had a couple of days in Lesotho before we had to start driving to Swaziland, so Lesotho was a bit of a blur.