HELLO + WELCOME as we cross Australia, Africa and Europe. It’s Gareth here with Part 2 from Aswan. Read PART ONE before you read on. In downtown Aswan the office was small and two Egyptian men occupied the room. One looked to be a high ranking officer and the other a plain clothes […]
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 […]
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. […]
HELLO + WELCOME as we drive from Sydney to London, via Africa. It’s Kirsty typing today. When chatting with a Rwandan we were told “You must feel safe in Rwanda. Leave your car anywhere and it will be left alone”. “Why is it so safe here in Kigali? I asked, intrigued. “Because we […]
HELLO + WELCOME as always. It’s G here today carrying on from my last post on North Malawi. We left Chitimba Camp and headed up into the Nyika foothills to a scenic place called Livingstonia. A town founded by Scottish missionaries in the 19th century. A steep drive up a mountain through a series […]
HELLO + WELCOME as we drive our trusty old Troopy from Sydney to London. Via East Africa. Yes that a long drive isn’t it. We spent a lot of time in Malawi. Met heaps of new friends, took plenty of photos, saw the cheesy coloured moon rise over the lake (again….we saw it […]
HELLO + WELCOME to Part 2 of A Busted Landcruiser. We have now had the Troopy fixed and everything is running just fine. Our bush mechanics worked. We made it all the way to the next major town called Tsumeb. We headed straight into the Toyota dealership to see if they had […]
HELLO + WELCOME as we drive our trusty old Landcruiser from Sydney to London, via Africa. It’s Gareth typing today and if you are new here, you are most welcome. So, there we are driving through one of the most famous National Parks in the World. After leaving a small side track searching […]
HELLO + WELCOME to a long-awaited post on our rig. We have been receiving a LOT of questions about our set-up. Last week we posted about the gear we love and today we post about what we could have done differently. Take it away Gareth… First things first, we love our rig and set-up. Overall we […]
HELLO + WELCOME. It’s G here today sitting back on the banks on the Okavango River, re-living our time with the Himba people. Kirst and I visited a village in the far north Kunene region of Namibia. I want to share this with you because I have always found these people so fascinating and think […]