The combination of hot ground, a cool night, and the high humidity meant my tent fly was as wet as a fish when I was packing up this morning. There’s an option to rent a bungalow at the campsite we’re…
To Senegal we go (Stage 22)
Another early start with people crashing round in the dark long before they needed to be – I really must go further from the truck with my tent! It was also another day of lots of dew and condensation so…
Keep heading south (Stage 21)
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…
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’…
Another 30k day (Stage 16)
When I went out for a pee at around 0130 the moon had yet to rise, and being out in the middle of nowhere the stars were amazing with a bright clear band of Milky Way above us. It was…
Back to the desert (Stage 15)
My house mates decided that we needed to be up way too early for my liking, and I was sleeping in the ‘lounge’ of the bungalow it meant once they were up, so was I! On the plus side, that…
I was doin’ 150 miles an hour (Stage 14)
Somehow the police didn’t seem so close last night, but the fact that we were on the edge of the cliff with a completely flat plain to our left meant the idea of privacy when you needed to ‘go’ really…
A leisurely day (Stage 13)
I slept well in stages last night – my decision to go far away from everyone else didn’t work out so well because it meant I was super-close to the group of policemen assigned to keep an eye on us…