The first call to prayer was at 0515 and that seemed to be enough to stir people who were camping, to the point that someone turned the car park lights on at 0545 which made it like daylight in my…
Nouakchott rest day
I spent quite a bit of time wandering round the town this morning on the hunt for a replacement laptop charger which I have somehow misplaced – it’s not the end of the world because I can still charge my…
Flying again (Stage 19)
I managed to sleep through 6 min of my alarm going off at 0600 this morning – and that was after being in bed by not much after 2030. By the time I went to bed it was almost completely…
The day that got better! (Stage 18)
I’d needed to pee just before midnight, which woke everyone because the door was so rattily and clanky – as it turned out I wasn’t the only one, so it wasn’t such a bad thing that we were all awake.…
Off to Mauritania (Stage 17)
The hotel was good, but sleeping was a little harder – there were some pretty bright lights that came on in the atrium, and the curtains of our room weren’t up to the job at all. It was also ‘the’…