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August 7th, 2010 | Belgium

Leaving U.K., and the Ride to Amsterdam…

Dinner with the Swanepoels'. A pleasant evening with friends from home…

Posing with Francois and his daughters Eliza and Julia… Photo by Ania.

After meeting with Robyn, I made my way back to Francois’s home where we enjoyed a delicious dinner with the whole family. We chatted about my trip and […]

August 2nd, 2010 | Belgium

The Ride to Cowes…

Should have stopped as Simon suggested, but missed the last service staion at St With…

Heading for Liege and a maddening set of navigational mistakes…

My ride to Cowes was long and tiring…and frustrating…! I made a number of navigational blunders that I could not blame on Gi-Gi… Mistakes that cost […]

July 28th, 2010 | Europe

Across France to the Alps…

My very good friends, Khalid and Marie-Helene Kaab wish me Bon Voyage…

I bid my French friends goodbye at 8.00am this morning… It was hard to believe that we had met in Khartoum in the Sudan, just six weeks ago, and then spent the next few weeks traveling through Egypt together, and had […]

July 27th, 2010 | Europe

Just so you know…

In order to keep things in the correct sequence in which they took place, I am dropping the “missing” postings into the dates on which they actually took place, so you will need to scroll down from where you last left off, to see what I’ve been up to…!!

I hope […]

July 26th, 2010 | Europe

Dooooooodes………!!!!

Where the hell have I been….???

Well, it’s a long story, covering 6 countries, 2950 kms, many bottles of wine, three bottles of Jack Daniels, tubs of Foie Gras, lots of fruit and cheese, great company… and that was just the first day…!! Ha,ha!!

I am currently in the little French village of Saint Jean […]

July 25th, 2010 | Europe

Memories of Castels…

Khalid has plans to renovate the barns where livestock were once kept, and turn them into self-catering units to take advantage of the tourist who flock to this area in their thousands each year…

In time to come, this will be Sami's cottage…

There was so much to see and […]