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I am currently in Lilongwe, capital city of Malawi, looking to head west tomorrow morning into Zambia in order to reach Lusaka and then Victoria Falls. It should mark the 4th major part of the journey so far and should culminate with reaching Pretoria/Johannesburg around the 10th June in time for England's first match against the USA in Rustenburg. For the rest of the blog I will talk about a couple of the people that I have met on this journey, both of whom are travelling with their own very good (and most importantly regularly updated :)) blogs: 1. Oli Broom - Embarked late last year on a cycling trip to Australia in time for the Ashes which start at the end of the year. He talked some sense back into me while I was nearly going mad in Sudan (he cycled with us from Aswan - Khartoum) so I'm therefore eternally grateful. You can read all about his epic journey here. 2. Bjorn Heidstrom - Bald Norwegian goatee sporting fellow cyclist that I met on the ferry to Wadi Halfa and then again when visiting one of my charity's projects in Mombasa. Spends his time having stones thrown at him by kids, stitching football shirts together from all over the world and raising awareness for UN refugee camps, many of which he has visited in Africa on his journey. Here is his site. In the mean time, it would be great to hear from absolutely anyone who ends up reading my blog. Hopefully it might motivate me to put some more stuff on over the next couple of months. You can e-mail me on john.cc.walton@googlemail.com.