ABRAHAM BANDA - GUIDING AWARDS

I attended the Wanderlust 'Guide of the year' awards last night at the Royal Geographical Society, to watch Bill Bryson be funny, and a very chicly besuited Abraham Banda scoop silver. Congratulations to Abraham for winning this prestigious and well deserved award. He's a credit to South Luangwa and to Norman Carr Safaris .

Although by his own admission lost for words, he made a great speech and we saw the preview of a new UK TV series that featured he and his solid and reassuringly rifle-toting scout John Saili prominently. High spot was a deadpan Abraham helpfully pointing out to the breathlessly excited and rather nervous presenter, "Getting trodden on by an elephant can really spoil your day". Thanks for the tip, Abes.