Just because its a lovely image of Lake Kivu. Took this one while staying with Joe at NYamsheke.

Had to include this just to get a flavour of Kinyarwanda. Its such a fiendishly difficult language but I relished the challenge of learning any of it. I could manage very basic conversations but this was always to the sheer delight and amusement of Rwandans. If you said so much as a "mwaramutse" they thought you could speak Kinyarwanda! That means good morning by the way, although the literal translation apparently means, "I hope you slept as well as I wished you would."

This is one of the volcanoes at dusk looking at it from the nearest settlement which is Ruhengeri. Its kinda weird because the town is already at twice the height of Ben Nevis and then these volcanoes dominate the skyline. This is one of the smaller ones - about a third the size of Everest.

Was invited to a christening and typical Rwandan when we got there at 9 am on Sunday morning, having negotiated riding on a motorbike in a skirt, the christening had already happened. So we stayed for the church service little realising that it was going to be five hours long! I took this shot when I was bored and wandering around the back of the church with a numb backside.

Hi I am home now for anyone still reading this but there are some great photos that I wanted to just add. It has been an amazing experience and I am so glad that I did it. I have had my ups and downs with VSO but at the end of the day I came home feeling that I had achieved some of the things I had set out to do and feeling positive about it all.

So signing out with a smile and a few last photos ............

I just think this a beautiful simple image of two men in their dug out canoe. The one standing is using a tree branch as his pole and they will stay until they have caught enough fish for their dinner.

Sometimes I wonder who needs progress?

This wooden boat is at the posh end of the boat scale in Rwanda. It is made of pieces of wood tightly fastened together and sealed. These guys were rowing against a fast flowing current upstream, but they still managed to ask us for "amafaranga" ie money. The best one I have heard is someone who swam up to Hayley while she was swimming in the lake and asked her for some money!

Many of the ordinary fishing boats that you see are simply a large tree trunk which has been hollowed out and they are really unstable. That is the Congo on the bank at the other side!