It was such a treat to wake up with the sun, particularly since sun rise isn’t till around 0700. Tent down, bag packed and loaded, breakfast and now the long wait. Low tide’s not till 1640 and it’s only about…
Visiting St Louis (Stage 23)
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…
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…
Just getting it done (Stage 20)
The wind died away completely somewhere in the night, and by the time I was getting up this morning it was actually misty – quite weird in the desert. The upshot was a dripping-wet tent on both sides of the…
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’…
Alive and well in Mauritania
As I expected connectivity has been a challenge in Mauritania so just a quick update to let you all know that I’m alive and well in Nouakchott, the capital. We got here yesterday afternoon but the hotel Wifi is very…