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Running Report: 2
 From the Victoria Falls
Reporting from the rolling green lawns of the Livingstone Hotel on the banks of the River Zambesi, 50 yards from the spectacular Victoria Falls, sipping a Sundowner and watching an orange sun sink over the palm trees.
All the cars have made it to Livingstone, except car 11, the Chevrolet of Catherine D�Andrimont and Xavier del Marmol. It stayed in Lusaka to use the help of the Zambia Motor Sports Association who reckoned a new bearing could be made to get the car going again � having stopped when the prop shaft came away from the back of the gearbox.
Sunday has been a rest day so a chance to take a dramatic helicopter flight up between the narrow cliff faces of the Zambesi gorge at crocodile height, go white water rafting or just relax on the Africa Queen. In the car park a few cars are having running repairs and servicing.
The Larry Davis Saab has a noisy gearbox bearing and is causing some concern, the Riley 2.5 RME of Michael and Anne Wilkinson has welded up the rear shockabsorber mountings, and David Williams has solved his mis-fire for the Chevy Fangio Coupe, he was the second car to arrive here right behind the Finns in the Mercedes 230SL, Marti and Pirko Kirka. The 1913 Rolls Royce needed a tow rope from the Banhams but that was only to get 500 yards into the car park having run out of petrol in the driveway to the hotel.
Now we sit back and enjoy a gin and tonic under a balmy African sky. Tomorrow we head for Botswana using the Kasangula Ferry into Botswana where light aircraft take us from Kasane to the world�s greatest wetlands of the Okavanga Delta where we take time off to relax in three different Safari camps� mighty tough, this long-distance rallying, eh?
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