African Adventures

Towards the end of my time in London, Thomas got a job in Yemen.  As part of this job, he received R&R every six weeks or so and, as flights to and from Saa’na were only out of Djibouti at the time, we decided that…

Let me just say: Ghana is fantastic. Thomas and I were immediately happy just because we got to be back in Africa for 17 days and because this felt very, very far from London, both geographically and culturally. First things first, the flight. This was…

To be honest, I was ready to be impressed by Botswana, but it was really a mixed bag. Also to be honest, we spent a total of five days there, so I will admit that I am definitely under qualified to comment on the country generally…

I guess the first thing to say about Angola is: We loved, loved, LOVED Angola. Angola was pretty much our last major destination in Africa with Blue Lightning and it was also one of the least touristic places we have been to. Obviously we were…

In my opinion, once we left Windhoek, Namibia really got good. We saw a bunch of rock art, some great scenery, did a bit of free camping (more than I wanted, less than Thomas wanted) and hung out with the Himba people up north.  A…

In terms of culture and exoticism Namibia does not really pack a massive punch, but it does have some great sights, it is incredibly easy going and it is a fantastic self-drive destination – so it has made for a pretty good time overall.  The…

In a fairly spontaneous decision, we decided to go to Lesotho before heading out of South Africa and found ourselves crossing the border to Maseru the next day. Our first border crossing in Blue Lightning went incredibly smoothly (do you have anything to declare? no.…

Overlanding. It is great. It results in some very interesting conversations between myself and Thomas: Thomas:  If the canopy is locked up, I guess we don’t really need to put the extra padlocks on while we are sleeping in the tent – we would hear…

We have now spent over a month in South Africa.  This has involved a serious amount of partying, some fantastic food and wine (do not listen to whatever the South Africans you know tell you, the beer is totally unexceptional), great people and fairly good…

We spent two days crossing the border into Tanzania and making our way to Dar es Salaam. Not to make our last great public transport journey in Africa easy, we managed to take about five taxis over a 40km journey across the border (taxi, immigration…