Gillian Bremner was looking for something different when she retired from her role as CEO at Presbyterian Support Otago. When her forensic scientist husband, Greame, was offered a newly established role in Botswana - at the University of Basutoland, Bechuanaland and Swaziland - in 2018, the couple jumped at the chance to return to the country they had spent a month driving around a decade earlier. It was that experience of doing a self-drive tour of Botswana in 2008 that inspired Gillian and Graeme to start running their own Botswana self-drive tour company. They also have other strands to their growing tourism company. Gillian is Calling Home this morning from the couple's 16ha farm just outside Palapye, where you can build a house for as little as $30,000, though the workmanship sometimes leaves a lot to be desired...
New Zealanders Graeme and Gillian Bremner with members of their Self Drive Tours Botswan team. Photo: Supplied/Gillian Bremner
