Cheers for all the info, some good tips there to follow up on there. Keep em coming!

@Wakold, can't say it'd be easy to nail down a 'favourite' place, but Cape York definitely ranks up there, simply because of the insane things that happened and the people I met up there. The central deserts were definitely an eye opener too. One of those places where if you're there alone, it really makes you realise how ludicrously insignificant you are. An experience I think more people should have

@TurboCharger, thanks for the info. Liking your site too by the way, some great photos on there. I remember the 'wetsuit twist' pose very well myself! Always used to stop raining once I'd finished though!

Cheers Mate, as you'd know it's always a work in progress... and a lot of work I might add. It could always be better but time = money as they say. I do very much like the layout of your site, it's got all the good stuff right there where you need it so kudos!

The 1-piece water-proof overall (aka wetsuit) is a necessity in Europe, it also helps keep the wind out, just bloody hard to get on and off...

I have a couple of off topic questions:

Do you use a tripod?
What video camera do you use?
How did you design the logo, what program?
Regarding the book, how would you describe your narrative style?
Got any tips for video editing? ie Finalcut studio, iMovie


PS I love the credits in the video re asking for reuse rights to the song.

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Hi Christian

You could do well by contacting a young chap called Nathan Millward – a Yorkshireman (.. ee bye gum!) - who rode a little Honda CT110 step-thu 'Postie bike' overland from Sydney to London throughout 2009. He's just finished writing a 280-page book about the whole adventure, which is due for launch down under - in Oz (Sydney) - in three weeks' time, on the 1st February. Publishers are HarperCollins Australia.

You can find out more by visiting Nathan's website (his contact details etc) - link: Sydney Australia to London England on a moped. The adventure travel blog of Nathan Millward | The Postman

Nate should be able to offer some valuable advice & info. Please give him my regards if you manage to hook-up (we enjoyed a meal together, plus a pint or two, during a September evening last year in Peterborough.)

Good luck. Very impressed with your website layout BTW.

Cheers

KEITH

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Cheers Keith, I'll drop Nathan a line and see if he knows of anyone worth getting in touch with. Funnily enough I'm sure I read something somewhere about his trip before. chug

Glad people are liking the site, the book and that thing took more bloody time to do than the actual expedition! Still, kept me off the streets for a while at least.

@TurboCharger:

Used a 'Gorillapod' rather than a normal tripod, it's one of those bendy things that you can wrap round anything the comes to hand. Packs down nice and small as well.

The video camera wasn't a video camera at all, it was just the video mode that my digital camera happened to have. It's quite an old Canon Powershot A710 I think.

Logo wise, it all started out on a bit of paper with a pencil, very low tech stuff. Afterwards though it was all finished up in the ubiquitous Adobe Photoshop. It went through quite a few changes though before I finally made my mind up!

As for the style of the book, good question actually. I wanted to avoid it just being a regurgitated collection of journal entries or cliched autobigraphical tosh, and instead have tried to craft it into something that you could probably call a 'factual novel'. Beginning, middle, end and all that. A ripping yarn based on first hand experience. But then I would say that.

Tips wise for videos, not much I'm afraid. Mine were mainly done with the free Windows Move Maker. Wish I'd taken more video to be honest, but it's a bit tough when there is no-one else around to hold the camera for you!

That is a great website and fun video. I, too, hope the book gets published as some point. Sounds like a fun read.

Seems like more people are using Blurb.com

Have seen some nice cookbooks and family stuff coming out of their service.

Just a thought....

S