Imagine riding through thousands of hectares of olive groves –a modest number of 550,000 hectares which makes up 25% of all the olive groves in Spain-, up, down, right, left, soft curves or here you go sharp curves, and then all of a sudden your eyes stop at the mighty sight of the mountains that […]
Desde luego, no hay nada como volver a casa después de un largo y agotador viaje por África, ponerte ropa cómoda y comer un guiso preparado por tu abuela!! Entre una foto y la otra solo hay un par de horas de diferencia…pero qué diferencia!!
114 days of riding around and its stats: KM riding around Africa: 16.800 kms From which tracks: roughly 1.500 kms Number of times we fell down: 15 Visits to the mechanic: 11 Border crossings: 28 Police checkpoints we were stopped at: 50 at least in Mauritania, many in Western Sahara, a lot in Gambia, a […]
If you thought you had a name before arriving in Africa you were absolutely wrong as according to most African traditions you only can be madame or monsieur Cadeau, Bonbon Bic, or directly madame L‘argant! Some fellow traveler once said: “if I knew those tourists who give away all these little and apparently harmless gifts […]
In Rabat, in front of the Mauritanian embassy: We got there early, so early that nobody else was there. We unearthed the reason for our very unusual early arrival a few days later as we noticed that we were missing all the appointments we had made. That is we did not adjust our time to […]
I like this word, I like the weigh it carries and all the associations that it evokes. Even though most of the time the things are not the way they should be and travelling is not as it was. But, in the times of easy tourism by flying I´d better be happy with overlanding. The […]
When you think of a capital you tend to think of the plenty, embodied in the many cars, many people & many shops that are jammed in it and all the stressful words such as traffic, parking problems or rush hour that are associated with the concept of a capital. But Banjul is different with […]
Hace tiempo que había oído o leído algo acerca de este particular pueblo situado en el sureste de Mali. Sólo recordaba que era una región muy diferente al resto del país y con la herencia de los pobladores pigmeos que para refugiarse de los animales salvajes habían construido sus casas en lugares imposibles, excavadas en […]
Not always did we have such a welcoming reception just upon our arrival in the capital city. By the time the police stopped us we already had been hopelessly stuck in the hectic pre match -Africa Cup of Nations- traffic jam for almost 4 hours and had another 4 hours to go before we could […]
