The sheer joy of travel...

is all the more delicious when...

totally out of the blue...

you're invited to take an all-expenses-paid trip to your favourite country in the world!

International book tours are a rare event these days. After the ecstatic reception to her safari memoir Safari Ants, Baggy Pants & Elephants, Susie is over the moon to find herself returning to her beloved Kenya to launch the African edition in Africa's largest chain of bookshops, Text Book Centre, Nairobi.

Although her unexpected trip is a huge success, this is Susie Kelly, and her surprise week in Kenya isn't without mishap, even if she does remember her bras this time.  

'It does something to you, this infinite space, so tranquil on the surface, yet so teeming with life. You feel at once insignificant and amazing, just for being here. I wanted to hold out my arms and gather it all in, hold it pressed to my heart, never let it go. I wanted to lay it softly between sheets of tissue and put it in a drawer to be brought out and stroked every day. I wanted to bottle it in a crystal jar and place it on a sunny windowsill to be forever in my sight. This magnificent, beautiful country, birthplace of mankind, owner of my heart...'