Our homes for the night, in pictures
Blog posted by bex on Jan 17th, 2010A selection of photographs of places we’ve stayed during our first ten months on the road.
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Gallery: Cycling across the Sahara
Photographs posted by listentoafrica on Aug 24th, 2009
A few of our favourite photographs from our ten weeks in the Sahara – cycling the Atlantic route from Guelmim in Morocco to Nouakchott in Mauritania. Photographs by Huw Williams and Bex Sumner.
Gallery: the Maghreb in monochrome
Photographs posted by listentoafrica on Jul 21st, 2009
A bike’s eye view of the westernmost part of the Maghreb (the Atlantic route through Morocco and Western Sahara), taken during a 24,000 kilometre cycling journey across Africa. Photographs by Huw Williams and Bex Sumner, April to July 2009.
“What on earth are you doing out here?”
Blog posted by bex on Jul 12th, 2009
The road from Laayoune to Dakhla in Western Sahara is a desolate one, with little in the way of shade or water – but the roads are good, the traffic quieter, the temperatures gentler, and the wind gods are finally smiling on us.
A wedding in Africa’s last colony
Blog posted by bex on Jul 3rd, 2009
19 days in Laayoune: eating camel, gatecrashing a wedding and trying to make sense of the perplexing situation in Western Sahara – Africa’s last colony.
The journey so far
Blog posted by bex on Jun 30th, 2009
As we’ve now had visitors from over 100 countries and as quite a few of you have only recently started visiting the site, I thought now would be a good time to say hello, welcome, and we hope you enjoy following our journey over the next couple of years.
Morocco, in numbers
Blog posted by huw on Jun 26th, 2009
The second of our “in numbers” series – what we’ve eaten, where we’ve slept, how much (or little) we’ve cycled and how many squashed hedgehogs we’ve seen.
The merry nutcrackers
audio , people posted by listentoafrica on Jun 22nd, 2009
On the way from Sidi Ifni to Guelmim in southern Morocco, we cycled past a women’s cooperative extracting oil from argan nuts. We went in to meet the women, get laughed at and repeatedly bash our fingers with a heavy rock. You can read (and watch a slideshow) about the cultural, environmental and economic importance of argan in Huw’s Spotlight: all about argan .
Recorded on: 18th June 2009, 14:00 local time.
Location: Between Sidi Ifni and Guelmim, southern Morocco ( view on map )
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Spotlight: all about argan
Blog posted by huw on Jun 22nd, 2009
The first in a series of “spotlights” on people, projects and ideas that we find inspiring. This one’s on the argan tree, the women’s cooperatives who extract oil from it, and the tree’s importance in preventing desertification.
Soundscape: A short walk through Sidi Ifni at night
audio , soundscapes posted by listentoafrica on Jun 21st, 2009
Recording this was really an experiment / learning experience for us but we thought we’d post it anyway; we loved Sidi Ifni and hope these sounds evoke a little of its atmosphere. Main lesson learned: cycling sandals (with metal cleats sticking out of the bottom) make the worst possible footwear for a sound recordist…
Date and time recorded: 21:40 local time, 8th June 2009
Location: Sidi Idni, Morocco ( view on map )
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