At last!

Finally, here it is as promised the african blog! So much to tell already and we havent even left for Africa yet. Palli had a great summer working on the tour around southern England of 'Five Get Famous' I spent most of the summer staying with my sister and her family in Twickenham, which has been wonderful to spend so much time with my family for a change, I have also been doing various temp jobs..receptionist work mainly. Palli and I both bought our motorbikes for Africa earlier in the summer, a Honda Africa Twin for Palli and a Honda Dominator 650 for me. I have been practising alot to get my confidence up...it needed boosting especially after dropping it 3 times on the way home from buying it. No bones broken luckily, only the bike mirror. The bike is very tall and heavy but I am getting used to it and I'm sure it'll be no problem to ride through the deserts and jungles now...ha ha ha !!
So with our jobs over and after much producing and planning (and quite a few dramas, sleepless nights and the flu) and Haukur arriving we began filming 'Courier' . Its been going really well, everyone has been very supportive, we've found great actors & locations and we are all excited about how its looking so far....and we've not even been in trouble with the police once...yet! Many moments though of standing on streets, or wizzing through central london on the motorbikes, hoping not to get noticed. It amazing how inconspicious we have all become...always on the look out for those men in uniform. So we have 3 more days of filming to go, then 4 days to concentrate on getting ready for the trip and then we're off.....we have the jeep, Pierre arrived last week and Magga will join us here in the UK next friday. Can't wait!