March 24, 2008 GMT - Bamako, 24 March 2008
Bloodthirsty kingdoms. A useless voudou protector and more bike troubles.
Nearly home though the storey is to be continued sometime in the indefinite but near future....
February 27, 2008 GMT - Porto Novo, 27 February 2008
No boats and more dodgy roads. Potholes you could get lost in. Nigeria in 'it's actually quite a nice place shock'. Egg shaped wheel and bike woes. Voudoo in Benin.
February 12, 2008 GMT - Limbe, 12 February 2008
Brazzaville was an unexpected pleasure of the trip with a nice laid back atmosphere, good food and of course the benefit of a free air-conned room at the 'Hippo Campe' didn't hurt either. In Brazza I met up with...
January 29, 2008 GMT - Brazzaville, 29 January 2008
Mud mud inglorious mud. I find that rainy season it not the best time for travel in the equatorial jungle, get severely molested by tetsi flies, sample the hospitality of Catholic missions and make it to Brazzaville.
January 22, 2008 GMT - Luanda, 22 January 2008
In Angola. The worst and the best roads in Africa. Imagine Cuba if it had just been through 20 odd years of civil war and your close.... But great people and itīs all character building stuff as they say!
January 10, 2008 GMT - Windhoek, 10 January 2008
Wedding bells. Into Namibia and heading North. Lots of dirt!
December 06, 2007 GMT - Cape Town, 6 December 2007
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all!
Visa hassles.
Cape Town - made it!
November 12, 2007 GMT - Mozambique, 12 November 2007
Sheepy RIP. Two boat trips. Raising awareness in Africa about oil spills.
October 30, 2007 GMT - Malawi, 30 October 2007
Back up in Malawi again. On the way encounters with Rhinos. Another place that looks like Scotland. Zimbabwe proves to be an unexpected highlight.
October 16, 2007 GMT - South Africa, 16 October 2007
The Bullet rolls again. And rattles. And smokes. I've become an unpaid bike mechanic and journalist and if I stay any longer I'll be applying for residency in Joburg. About to head up North to say Good Day to Bob in Zim.
September 04, 2007 GMT - South Africa, 19 September 2007
Pop goes the Enfield. An express trip to Johannesburg. New wheels from pedal power to four. 15,000 topless maidens and much time in the workshop.
August 08, 2007 GMT - Malawi, 8 August 2007
Hippos and ugly birds. A quick jaunt through Tanzania and idleness on the shores of Lake Malawi.
June 30, 2007 GMT - Nairobi, 30 June 2007
Riding from Addis to Kenya we experience the rains and parched desert within a couple of days of each other. We sample qat chewing and encounter lots of blokes with big spears.
June 06, 2007 GMT - Addis Ababa, 6 June 2006
The latest blog entry from Addis Ababa and we muse on issues of street kids, fret over strange rattles from the Bullet and get ready to ride down to Nairobi.
May 25, 2007 GMT - Bahir Dar, 25 May 2007
More ups and downs. We go to a Sudanese free-party. Sascha communes with baboons and finally we are out of the desert after four months of frying. Ethiopia is quirky and wonderful.
May 02, 2007 GMT - Khartoum, 2 May 2007
We crash, we burn but we make it to Khartoum. A quick travelog of the journey and info for anyone going the same way.
April 10, 2007 GMT - Egypt, 10 April 2007
Africa at last after four months on the road! Or so we thought when arriving in to Nuweiba in Egypt from Aqaba in Jordan. Apparently not so, the Sinai is still the Middle East. As the cliche goes, it's not...
March 25, 2007 GMT - Jordan , 25 March 2007
Another slow ride to bed in our new piston saw us cross the border from Syria to Jordan and arrive in Amman late afternoon. Riding from one capital city to another in one day was pretty stressful and gave plenty...
March 08, 2007 GMT - Syria, 8 March 2007
We've seen a number of high and low points the last month. Entering Syria the scenery underwent a dramatic change from Turkey. The mountains became hills and the bike was grateful to be pulling us along flat roads after day...
February 08, 2007 GMT - Turkey, 9 February 2007
Success on getting the Syrian visa has sealed our route for the next couple of months. A brief burst of energy from our previous tortoise pace of travel has seen us arrive in Antakya, the closest Turkish city to the...
January 17, 2007 GMT - Turkey, 20 Jan 2007
Finally we are in Turkey and it feels like we are some distance from home. Having only intended to spend a week or so in Greece we ended up being there for five. As the blog is already somewhat...
December 20, 2006 GMT - Crete, 20 Dec 2006
Here we are in Crete, finally on the road! After a quick-ish ride down the back roads of France, Italy and Switzerland a ferry has taken us to Greece where the pace has slowed to the way it should be,...
November 23, 2006 GMT - Not left yet! 23 November 2006
Dammit! Delays galore. Everyone says that in planning a trip such as this preparation takes a lot longer than you expect and they are not wrong... From packing everything up at home and cleaning it up to rent out to...
November 01, 2006 GMT - About us
The plan has been long in hatching and slow in execution. For the last couple of years we have talked about doing this trip but finally, with Sascha finishing studying and me reaching a point in my job where I...
