Posts tagged ‘travelogue’
Blog posted by bex on Jan 25th, 2010
A quick summary of our last two months – from getting engaged to getting Blackwater Fever and getting evacuated by air ambulance. Twice.
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Tags: africa , blackwater fever , cycling expedition , e coli , expeditions , falciparum , ghana , health , hospitals , illness , journey , liberia , london , malaria , medical care , sierra leone , travel , travelogue , uk
Blog posted by bex on Jan 17th, 2010
A selection of photographs of places we’ve stayed during our first ten months on the road.
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Tags: accommodation , africa , camping , cycle touring , cycling , france , gallery , guinea-bissau , liberia , mauritania , morocco , photography , senegal , travel , travelogue , western sahara , wild camping
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 we have. We’ve also come to realise that there aren’t enough hours in the day to do all the things we want to do…
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Tags: africa , cycling , expeditions , freetown , internet , life the universe and everything , sanity , sierra leone , tiwai island , travel , travelogue , twitter , west africa
Blog posted by bex on Nov 22nd, 2009
From Guinea-Bissau’s Bijagos islands to Freetown, Sierra Leone: a dash through Guinea’s beautiful landscapes and unstable political climate – by Land Rover.
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Tags: africa , atlantic rising , bijagos , bissau , boats , boke , bubaque , checkpoints , cycling , dadis camara , expeditions , freetown , guinea , guinea-bissau , independence , land rover , military , orango , overlanding , sekou toure , sierra leone , travel , travelogue , west africa
Blog posted by bex on Nov 3rd, 2009
Our best border crossing yet; an evening with a missionary; thunderstorms and drug barons; and a close encounter with a steamed dog’s head.
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Tags: africa , bissau , border crossings , cocaine , cycle touring , cycling , dogs , drugs , expeditions , food , guinea-bissau , travelogue , west africa
Blog posted by bex on Nov 2nd, 2009
We liked southern Senegal’s Casamance region. And things started happening as soon as we crossed the border…
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Tags: africa , casamance , cycling , journey , military , senegal , travel , travelogue , war , west africa
Blog posted by bex on Oct 22nd, 2009
Two weeks in The Gambia; from Barra’s brothels and Banjul’s bumsters to red roads and rural rivers.
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Tags: africa , banjul , borders , cycling , economy , expeditions , human rights , jammeh , press freedom , soma , soundscapes , sukuta , the gambia , travel , travelogue
Blog posted by bex on Oct 5th, 2009
After the end of Ramadan in St Louis, we set off for a slow, eight day cycle through rural Senegal’s backroads, passing through savannah and peanut farms, villages and holy cities, towards the Gambian border.
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Tags: africa , agriculture , aid , cycling , economy , eid-el-fitr , ramadan , rural , senegal , st louis , toubabs , travel , travelogue
Blog posted by bex on Sep 18th, 2009
We were in St Louis when I last wrote and we’re in St Louis now, but we’ve been halfway around Senegal in the meantime – enjoying a holiday from our semi-permanent holiday. Here are a few things we learned along the way.
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Tags: africa , bandia reserve , bureaucracy , cycling , field recording , le thiossane , senegal , st louis , travel , travelogue , west africa
Blog posted by bex on Aug 25th, 2009
Leaving Mauritania – with more questions than answers. An update on our last few days in Mauritania as we cycled from its capital to the Senegalese border.
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Tags: africa , aziz , bidonvilles , bike , border crossings , camels , camping , cycling , expeditions , food , mauritania , monitor lizards , nomads , nouakchott , rain , roadkill , sahara , scorpions , senegal , travel , travelogue , urbanisation , weather , west africa , wild camping