Category: Africa

We left Nouakchott with optimism, I had been looking forward to Senegal since we started the trip – safe and friendly according to the FCO and the capital Dakar held obvious interest for James. The border crossing was expected to be difficult – we had been told at the embassy that the Diama border crossing…

We´re not in Kansas anymore Toto! From the moment we crossed the border from Morocco everything felt different and really was different. From the bizarre – someone turned the furnace up and emptied a swarm of mosquitos into the sky at the border; to the more expected – faces were suddenly much darker and the…

We were excited! We had filled up with fuel, water and provisions and were also full of anticipation for the 5 day trek across the rolling sand dunes of the Sahara desert. We were following the coast road so had romantic images of crashing waves on one side, endless dunes on the other….maybe a Bedouin…

We were to spend two weeks in Morocco, a country we have loved in the past and which has not failed to live up to expectations again. It is a land of contradictions – most of it arid, desert landscapes but with splashes of vibrant colour in the towns, cities and most of all the…

We´ve done it!! Woo hoo! We´ve even started to look different! But to back track just a little…. We arrived at the port in Sete nearly 8 hours early as we knew there were a lot of obstacles to try and sort out before we were allowed to board. However, remarkably, we had jumped through…