Monthly Archives: March 2012
Cameroon
Ever since Roger Milla scored and danced at Italia ’90 Cameroon has held a mystical hold over my travel plans. It was fitting then that on the first night there we spent it in a border town drinking far too … Continue reading
The dream is dead
The dream of driving the length of Africa on the west coast has died a miserable death. It was a slow and painful death that started in Lome around the middle of January, taking the best part of two months … Continue reading
Mount Cameroon
At 2000 and something metres, in a rat infested shack with a corrugated iron roof, with hay on a large flat wooden board for a bed and the wind whistling through every tiny opening, I wonder whether my decision to … Continue reading
Snapshots of West Africa
Vibrantly clothed women balancing bundles of firewood and huge basins of water on their heads with grace and ease; wizened, toothless old men sitting in the shade of a tree and watching the world go by; laughing, barefoot, partially clothed … Continue reading
Nigeria… OMG… it has blown my mind!
We are currently in the depths of the Gabon forest about 200Km from Libreville on the equator having exited Nigeria almost three weeks ago. I am not even sure where to start blogging about the sixteen nights that we spent … Continue reading
Overland to Cape Town 