Category Archives: Africa

WHEN GARETH BECAME AN HONORARY WOMAN FOR THE DAY

  HELLO + WELCOME as we drive from Sydney to London, via Africa. It’s Kirsty writing today. Let’s go…     We arrived in Wadi Halfa our final port of call in Sudan or a blisteringly hot day. Which is to say it felt like any other day in Sudan. Our fixer for the ferry […]

SUDAN : DO NOT TRAVEL

    HELLO + WELCOME as we make our way through Australia, Africa and Europe, driving our 1989 Toyota LandCruiser. It’s Gareth here. And I have a few questions for you. Have you ever been to the Republic of the Sudan? Do you even know where it is situated on the map? Did you know […]

WRAP UP {EDITION 40}

    HELLO + WELCOME as we drive ourselves from Sydney to London, via Africa. It’s Kirsty here, today. And I am so GOD-DAMN-HAPPY to write this Wrap Up. Lately we have been pretty relaxed with the website. It felt right to step back – while we were busy with the actual travelling it takes […]

Lalibela + The Tunnel Of Hell

  HELLO + WELCOME as we make our way from Sydney to London, overland through Africa. It’s Kirsty here.     Lalibela was a mystery to us both. Home to one of the most significant religious sites in the world we weren’t sure what to expect. What we found sent tingles up the spine. We […]

YOU, YOU, YOU!

    HELLO + WELCOME as we attempt to cross Africa and make our way from Sydney to London! It’s Kirsty here today with our second post on Ethiopia. You can find our first week here tracking Ethiopian Wolves.     Driving in Ethiopia as white people comes with a chorus of ‘Youyouyouyouyou’ and ‘Farangeeeeeeee’. […]

TRACKING ETHIOPIAN WOLVES

HELLO + WELCOME as we make our way from Sydney to London, overland through Africa. It’s Kirsty here today writing about our time tracking Ethiopian Wolves in the Bale Mountains. We skidded into the border town between Kenya and Ethiopia to find the Kenyan custom guy taking a two hour lunch. This kind of thing […]

MARSABIT to MOYALE

    HELLO + WELCOME as we drive from Sydney to London across Africa. If you are new to our site, you are most welcome. It is Gareth here today and I wanted to to share with you our time in Northern Kenya on a notorious stretch of road from Marsabit to Moyale – a […]

WAITING GAME

HELLO + WELCOME as we stall in our journey from Sydney to London, via Africa. It’s Kirsty typing today.   After exhausting all options in Kampala and Nairobi we made the decision to send our passports home to Australia in order to get our Ethiopia visa. We spoke with the embassy in Canberra and the […]

NO, REALLY, CANCEL YOUR PLANS

HELLO + WELCOME as we attempt to drive from Sydney to London in our trusty old LandCruiser. It’s Kirsty writing today.     When we first entered Kenya our plan was to drive to the Masai Mara National Park, Nairobi and then North towards Ethiopia within a week. All of those plans changed when G […]

SICK IN KENYA

  HELLO + WELCOME as we drive up from Sydney to London. It’s Gareth here today. Well, it was bound to happen. One of us would get sick in Africa and true to fashion it was me.       It was about 12pm by the time we reached the border town of Busia in Eastern Kenya. […]