The journal 5 notes
Written at the desk
Working notes from the five of us, on how the house plans, charges and — occasionally — cancels. Published when they are finished, which is not often. No destination listicles.
- fixers
- house rules
- money
- namibia
- operations
- planning
- weather
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The four things we will not book
No captive animals, no bed we have not slept in, no helicopter for the view, no one-night stops. Every year somebody offers to pay extra. Every year the answer is the same.
2026
Eleven months is not a marketing number
Why our books close 240 days before a departure, what we do with the time, and the one journey where we have tried to shorten it.
- planning
- money
- 2 min
What a fixer actually does
Ndapewa Shituula has run the Skeleton Coast for us since 2018. A day in the Hoanib, and the four phone calls that happened before breakfast.
- fixers
- namibia
- 2 min
The price is the price
We take no commission from anyone we book. If a lodge offers us twelve per cent, it comes off your bill. Here is where the £14,900 on Snow Country actually goes.
- money
- house rules
- 2 min
Four times we cancelled
Eighty-four journeys since 2016, and four we called off ourselves. What happened on each, what it cost, and the rule we wrote after the third.
- operations
- weather
- 2 min