July 26 Saturday. En route to Ndola
A pleasant day as Chris was feeling so much better and did not cough herself to death too often nor sneeze too much. David was suffering from a really bad throat, poor fellow as it is inevitably the harbinger of a bad cold to come. After breakfast, we proceeded backwards to the observation lounge for over an hour before coming back to the central Lounge for a talk on rare animals by Nicholas. The rare animals shown by Nicholas were indeed very rare or even extinct but still interesting. Then back to the cabin, until lunchtime, listening to the iPad.
In the observation lounge I enjoyed an Americano with Amarillo. I also sent Cilla details of what we were doing in Zambia, her birthplace, and David read me out the details I had on my genealogical web site for the Bedfords (Cilla's family) so that I felt closer to her.
After lunch we again progressed to the observation lounge until the train stopped around 4 pm at Kapiri Mposhi in order to put the engine back at the front of the train (it had been at the back of the train since Dar es Salaam) and for more water to be taken on board. We were hoping to get out for a walk along the platform, but this never happened. So about 5:30 pm, we had returned to the cabin and packed up our overnight bags for the South Luangwa National Park on Sunday and Monday, we went up to the middle lounge and had a margarita. This was very pleasant.
Then a nice supper with the boys having their photograph taken there, before retiring back for an early night because we had a 5 a.m. get up on the morrow.