You may have got this from the blog title but yesterday we cycled our ten thousandth mile since leaving the London Eye. It’s been quite a ride! We have cycled over mountains and crossed deserts. we have overcome mechanical failures and political disasters. We have stayed on mud huts and expensive hotels. We have sweated in stifling dry heat and shivered in cold rain. We have laughed at the good times and the bad, the easy and the hard, we have even managed to laugh at diarrhea! And the best bit, it isn’t over yet! Tomorrow we will begin to cycle down into Zambia and onto the spectacular natural wonder that is Victoria Falls.
Since the last blog that Ian wrote in Mzuzu we have spent a few days off relaxing on the coast of the beautiful Lake Malawi in a town called Nkhata Bay. The road to ...
Sorry its been so long since Alan’s last blog but internet has been rather scarce since Zanzibar. Quite a lot has happened in the past 2 weeks of cycling. We reluctantly left Zanzibar after a weeks relaxing with 11 Norweign nurses, it was hard to drag ourselves away. Once we hit mainland Tanzania we left Dar Es Salaam after buying another new bottom bracket for my bike, that’s my third and I now need a fourth of the damn things. The cycling from Dar wasn’t especially exciting until we reached the Mikumi national park. We expected this park to be like the others, in which we had seen very few animals, but we were pleasently surprised. This park was brisling with animals very close to the roads. We saw Baboons, Zebra, Wat hogs, Gizzele, Elephants, Giraffes and more. The Giraffes were particluarly impressive as I approached they were right next ...
What would you do for $100? That was a question that I was forced to ask myself this week
I will start at the beginning. Ian Wrote the last blog entry on the Island of Pemba just off the coast of Tanzania north of Zanzibar. We spent 2 days cycling the length of Pemba traveling though some Fantastic Lush tropical forest. There was so much vegetation and none of it looked alike, it was spectacular. Much like the ferry journey south to the Zanzibar Island but t hat was spectacular for other reasons.
Arriving at the ferry terminal early we entered the sort of chaos that only African public transport can create. The antiquated ferry stood at the quay with no apparent gang planks or walkways to get on board, instead people were simply jumping or walking across narrow wooden planks not attached in any way to ...
I want to start by apologising for the lack of blogs Alan and I have been
writing recently. I wish I could say it’s because we've had no internet
access but that’s not true. The truth is we have been side tracked by
many things, mainly of the beverage type. After leaving Jinja we cycled
to Nairobi and
spent 4 days waiting for a parcel to arrive, during these 4 days we had a lot
of time to write a blog but we also had a bar in the ...
I just had a look at the last blog, its been a while since our last update, but don’t be fooled, that’s not because there is nothing to talk about. After all we have had Christmas, and Yew Year to contend with, not forgetting Mums now internationally famous Christmas cake! Unfortunately given that we are cycling across Africa, we haven’t done much cycling.
The Last Blog was written by Ian in Kampala, the capital of Uganda. we only stayed on Kampala for one night so on the following day we left though some of the worst traffic we have encountered so far. Maybe it’s something in our make up that meant we both really enjoy fighting for space with the mini busses, motorbikes, taxis, lorry and pedestrians. With the odd kick here, and the odd shout of W****r there, we survived unscathed ready to fight another day! The next ...
