Libya
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Saturday, 3 Jul 2010 | Views [972] | Comments [2]
The border into Egypt is notorious. Overland online forums are littered with horror stories of peoples' experiences and top tips to make getting through that little bit easier. It even took Ewan McGregor and his money-no-object, months-of-preparation ... Read more >
Saturday, 3 Jul 2010 | Views [798]
...or so we hoped. After weeks of colour variations on a theme (sand-coloured, beige, light brown, dusky pink) and days of passing landscape that really didn't change much (sudden cries of "ooh look! there's another camel/burnt out car/animal corpse"... Read more >
Friday, 25 Jun 2010 | Views [702] | Comments [2]
In five days we've driven over 1000km from Tripoli along the northern coast road of Libya, heading east. It hasn't been the most interesting drive, as we'd been warned, but it's been more enjoyable than we expected and we've broken the back of the journey.... Read more >
Saturday, 19 Jun 2010 | Views [617] | Comments [1]
The other day the sky was a dark mustard yellow all over, growing darker by the minute as the sun set somewhere deep far behind the thick wall of sand. I'd never seen anything like it: I was literally stunned into silence. I felt like some of my students ... Read more >
Saturday, 19 Jun 2010 | Views [1015]
One day
good. One day bad. The best truck in the world that dances over sand dunes and
makes old men smile in the street as it passes with its V8 purring like a
Siberian tiger slurping Cornish cream. The worst pile of malfunctioning
anachronistic ... Read more >
Thursday, 17 Jun 2010 | Views [748] | Comments [3]
One week to drive 1800km in our slow, steady beast? We'd just about managed to convince ourselves it was possible by the time we reached the Libyan border, despite an occasional splutter from the exhaust and a rising temperature gauge as we neared ... Read more >
Tuesday, 15 Jun 2010 | Views [453] | Comments [1]
what to buy: The July issue of Land Rover Owner International magazine, out in all good newsagents now. An article about our preparations. Rather ironic as Rosie felt we spent far too long on prior preparation and Huw feels there was not enough, ... Read more >
