huw
Huw Williams is a 41 year old British agriculturalist, traditional signwriter, amateur entomologist, expedition caver, human rights and environmental activist and former shepherd. He has had a lifelong passion for the natural world and spends much of his spare time photographing and documenting the world around him. He has travelled extensively in Africa, and recently cycled solo from the Indian to the Atlantic ocean (Tanzania to Namibia).
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Blog posted by huw on Dec 4th, 2009
Over the past nine months, we’ve travelled through some spectacular lands and feel privileged to have seen and heard what…
Tags: africa, cycling, expeditions, freetown, internet, life the universe and everything, sanity, sierra leone, tiwai island, travel, travelogue, twitter, west africa
Blog posted by huw on Oct 27th, 2009
Another one for our “in numbers” series: how lazy and how greedy we were in Senegal (the short answer is…
Tags: accommodation, africa, cycling expeditions, food, numbers, senegal, statistics, west africa
Blog posted by huw on Oct 27th, 2009
The latest in our “in numbers” series: how far we cycled, where we slept and how many racks broke in…
Tags: accommodation, africa, cycling, expeditions, in numbers, statistics, the gambia, west africa
Blog posted by huw on Sep 21st, 2009
We’ve been on the road for around six months now and I thought it was about time I updated the…
Tags: africa, audio, audio recorder, Audio-Technica, Beyer Dynamic, cables, equipment, expedition, field recording, fostex, headphones, interviews, kit, konig & meyer, micbooster, microphones, nature, pistol grip, portabrace, pre-amp, Reinhardt, reviews, rycote, Sennheiser, sound recording, soundscapes, travel, velbon, wildlife, windshield, windsock
Blog posted by huw on Aug 24th, 2009
The fourth in our “in numbers” series: how many visas we bought for Mauritania, hours we spent chasing silent donkeys,…
Tags: accidents, africa, camels, cycling, expeditions, food, in numbers, mauritania, punctures, roadkill, statistics, travel, visas
Blog posted by huw on Aug 24th, 2009
Belatedly, here’s the third in our “in numbers” series: what we ate, where we slept, how much we cycled and…
Tags: africa, cycling, expeditions, food, in numbers, punctures, statistics, travel, western sahara
Blog posted by huw on Jun 26th, 2009
The second in our “in numbers” series:
1603 kilometres cycled in Morocco (3130 kilometres total)
142 triangle cheeses consumed
139…
Tags: africa, cycling, expeditions, food, in numbers, morocco, punctures, statistics, travel
Blog posted by huw on Jun 22nd, 2009
Throughout this journey, we will be documenting people, projects and ideas that we find inspiring – whether they relate to…
Tags: agriculture, argan, argan oil, argan tree, audio, climate change, cooperatives, desertification, economy, environment, food, morocco, north africa, spotlight, trees, women
Blog posted by huw on Jun 2nd, 2009
As you may have already seen, this expedition has several focuses, and we’ll be using sound recordings to document a…
Tags: africa, audio, crowd sourcing, equipment, jacques cousteau, sound recording, sound recordings, wildlife
Blog posted by huw on Jun 1st, 2009
Today saw the launch of a new Nick Broomfield documentary, A Time Comes, about the Kingsnorth Six, a Greenpeace nonviolent…
Tags: activism, africa, change, climate change, climate change impacts, greenpeace, huw williams, kingsnorth