Mount Livingstone Hotel, Mbeya

Another long gravel day with lots of rally rumour going around that it would be terrible. As it turned out it was ok, with parts that were very nice, especially the stretch through the boabab trees. Still no more wildlife though. Perhaps we are just being unobservant. We didn't get too many penalties, much better than yesterday, but we werre all pretty shaken when we came across poor Ian and Rod who rolled their car nose to tail. This evening we have heard they have a perspex windscreen and are catching up overnight through the world cup section...Mad!

We raced Jeff over the 330km of tarmac to Mbeya doing a good 70-80mph and were lucky not to get caught for speeding as many others did. One policeman and did pull us over, stuck his head in the window and pointed at me saying, 'This is Mafinga' ...obviously and what are you going to do with it, I thought. 'Welcome to Mafinga', he said.
We are in the not-so-awful hotel tonight, thank goodness because the really-awful hotel is just that.