EGYPT | Thursday, 26 Aug 2010 | Views [724]
Since leaving Siwa, we've crossed the entire width of Egypt, and now find ourselves on the Sinai peninsula, in the hippie hangout of Dahab. Like Siwa, but for very different reasons, it's the perfect place to chill out, settle and work for a bit, ... Read more >
EGYPT | Tuesday, 24 Aug 2010 | Views [657] | Comments [2]
ROSE: Blissfully unaware and sinking fast into oasis life, we realised with a jolt that the measly one-month visas we'd been issued on entry were coming to an end. Just like in Libya, we had to apply for extensions. No matter, 'ma fish mooshkila', ... Read more >
EGYPT | Tuesday, 24 Aug 2010 | Views [1667]
So, at the beginning of July (a long time ago now) we turned up in Siwa for three days and stayed a month. Why? Here's why. Exploring the aptly named Great Sand Sea I thought, seen one desert, seen 'em all, but each time we ventured out of the ... Read more >
EGYPT | Saturday, 24 Jul 2010 | Views [768]
By the end of our first day in Siwa Oasis, instantly enchanted, we knew that we’d stay longer than the three days we’d planned. What we didn’t know was that time would start playing tricks on us: suddenly, we’ve been here almost three weeks, and ... Read more >
EGYPT | Tuesday, 20 Jul 2010 | Views [662] | Comments [1]
We crossed the border into Egypt three weeks ago but we haven't moved far. Right now, in fact, although we're 600km away from Salloum by road, as the crow flies to the nearest point, we're just 80km from the Libyan border. The only thing between us ... Read more >
LIBYA | 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 >
LIBYA | Saturday, 3 Jul 2010 | Views [799]
...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 >
LIBYA | Friday, 25 Jun 2010 | Views [703] | 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 >
LIBYA | 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 >
LIBYA | 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 >
LIBYA | Thursday, 17 Jun 2010 | Views [749] | 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 >
LIBYA | Tuesday, 15 Jun 2010 | Views [454] | 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 >
TUNISIA | Wednesday, 9 Jun 2010 | Views [778] | Comments [2]
We intended to spend just three weeks here, but we’ve now been exploring Tunisia’s delights for almost seven. This week we bid a sorry farewell to this amazing country and the new friends we have made here, and continue our journey eastwards: the long-... Read more >
TUNISIA | Wednesday, 9 Jun 2010 | Views [826] | Comments [1]
It was complex. It was taxing.
It took a while. And in the end it has become a clear lesson in "be careful what you
wish for...." Got the stamp, which of course takes up a whole egotistical page. It's a transit visa, which we wanted, because ... Read more >
TUNISIA | Wednesday, 2 Jun 2010 | Views [729] | Comments [2]
(Ummm. And the back light went crunch and the bike rack got mangled.)
At a beautiful spot by the
sea, Huw, Mirko, Ulrike and me Spent a lush lazy morning, Without hint of a warning Of what was ... Read more >
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