Smithfield was only the second night of camping in Africa for Chris and Anna Roe, out from England with 7-year-old Freya. There will be many more before their eight-month swing through the continent ends in Cape Town.
As Smiffie witnessed, setting up camp in Gus Uys’s camping grounds, was undertaken with an efficiency based on plenty of practice back home in England, The well-equipped 4×4 with accompanying tents, quickly became home for the night, with Freya doing her share of the work.
The young family is not entirely new to Africa. Anna was born in Kenya, and
business consultant Chris had visited South Africa several times professionally. For Freya, this was her adventure of a lifetime, although she did have reservations about leaving her schoolmates behind.
From Smithfield the family headed for Malealea in Lesotho. After seeing something more of that beautiful country they planned to drive through Mocambique and Tanzania, hopefully ending up in Kenya (unless political instability put paid to that part of the adventure).
The idea is then to turn south, travelling through Zambia, down the West Coast to Cape Town – and back to England.
