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Gallery: Sierra Leone Cycling through sweet Sierra Leone via Freetown, Shenge, Kenema, Bo and Tiwai Island. Photography by Bex Sumner and Huw Williams, November and December 2009.
Related sound: Yellow-casqued Hornbill (Tiwai Island) »
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Gallery: Guinea-Bissau and Guinea (Conakry) The journey through Guinea-Bissau and Guinea (Conakry). In this stretch, we travelled by bike, boat and, because of the unstable situation in Guinea at the time, by Land Rover, courtesy of the fine folks at Atlantic Rising. Photographs by Bex Sumner and Huw Williams, 2009.
Related gallery: Faces of the Bijagos (Guinea-Bissau) »
Related blog: Into Guinea-Bissau: drug barons, dogs’ heads and difficult decisions »
Related blog: Guinea: a dash through a dashing country »
Related sound: The chain ferry to Guinea »
Related sound: The pirogue to Orango »
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Huw’s health, and an unexpected homecoming A quick summary of our last two months – from getting engaged to getting Blackwater Fever and getting evacuated by air ambulance. Twice.
The Times They Are A-Changin’! (The Hobo Blues) 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…
Guinea: a dash through a dashing country From Guinea-Bissau’s Bijagos islands to Freetown, Sierra Leone: a dash through Guinea’s beautiful landscapes and unstable political climate – by Land Rover.
Into Guinea-Bissau: drug barons, dogs’ heads and difficult decisions Our best border crossing yet; an evening with a missionary; thunderstorms and drug barons; and a close encounter with a steamed dog’s head.
The Gambia, in numbers The latest in our “in numbers” series: how much we cycled, where we slept and how many racks broke in The Gambia.
Through The Gambia: “We have peanuts, so we have peace” Two weeks in The Gambia; from Barra’s brothels and Banjul’s bumsters to red roads and rural rivers.
Musings from Mauritania (Nouakchott to Rosso) 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.
Mauritania, in numbers The fourth in our “in numbers” series: how many hours we spent chasing silent donkeys, the number of cars that hit us and other vital statistics from our time in Mauritania.
