Category Archives: Egypt

CROSSING THE MEDITERRANEAN

    HELLO + WELCOME as we make our way from Sydney to London via Africa. In this post we tell our story of crossing the Mediterranean from Egypt to Turkey. It’s Kirsty writing today.     The journey aboard a ship from Egypt to Turkey was a bit of a mystery and we weren’t sure […]

CROSSING AFRICA

  HELLO + WELCOME as we drive from Sydney to London across Africa.   Today brings a very special post as we write the story of crossing Africa by car! It’s Kirsty writing today – with Gareth chiming in.     After nine months driving the length of Africa we were about to drive to […]

OVERLANDING OUT OF AFRICA

  HELLO + WELCOME as we drive from Sydney to London, across Africa! It’s Kirsty writing today… as we have a crack at overlanding out of Africa.   If you haven’t read our prior posts; I suggest you start here and here. And if you are new to our corner of the web, start here. OK. […]

IT’S THE JOURNEY, NOT THE DESTINATION

  HELLO + WELCOME as we drive from Sydney to London, via the length of the African continent. It’s Kirsty writing today.         Today was the day we would reach the top of Africa (!!!!!!!) … and sort arrangements to get to Europe.   Port Said was our last stop. At first […]

SNIPERED ON SUEZ

  HELLO + WELCOME as we drive from Sydney to London, across Africa. In this post we leave off from northern Egypt and reach the very top of Africa. It’s Kirsty writing today. Let’s go.     In northern Egypt it felt like we had already left Africa behind. We stayed a night in Hurghada and […]

I SEE THE SEA

  HELLO + WELCOME as we attempt to drive from Sydney to London, via Africa. It’s Kirsty writing today about overlanding Egypt and seeing the ocean for the first time since South Africa.     While sweating buckets in Luxor and seeing more antiquities than either of us had the patience for, we spent our […]

FIRE BOMBS AND A DAYLIGHT SHOOTING IN ASWAN – PART 1

  HELLO + WELCOME as always. In this post we make it to the land of the pharaohs. Egypt! It’s Gareth writing today. Egypt had never been on my list of ‘must travel’ countries.  Egypt didn’t excite me. Sure it has the pyramids, the Valley of the Kings and lots of other historic attractions but […]