When Dad decided to have another go…
I thought my eyes were deceiving me when I spotted my slender mother and her girlfriend casually lift a freezer into the minibus. How on earth was there still space for it? In there already were six mattresses, enough bedding for a five-bedroom house, a steel table – the kind people use to bake pancakes on at the church bazaar – and two brand-new fans.
It was the December holidays and the Mailovich family was on its way to camp in a place where there would be only a barbed wire fence between us and hell: Serengeti, where the temperature varies between 39 ºC and 45 ºC. No, not the one in East Africa with all the animals… we were heading for a caravan park just
