Of a friendly taxi driver and lousy Land Rover service

The friendly taxi driver I’m trying to find my way in the hustle and bustle of Casablanca’s insane traffic, looking for Salim on 625, Boulevard Mohammmed V. Salim is the dealer for Britpart in these neck of the woods, and Britpart in the UK has a gearbox ready to be shipped. We all...
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the photographs

I have added a link to my photography site in the menu at the top of the page, and will be adding galleries to it with images from each country en route.  Until then it shows mainly pictures from recent travels to Morocco, Paris, Barbados (all in 2013), and Malaysia (2012). Below...
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Overlanding with a dog: Sudan-Egypt border

There’s one border that Thimba will have to tackle all on her own: the border between Sudan and Egypt. It can only be crossed with a passenger ferry on Lake Nasser. The cars are transported on a separate barge. Dogs are not allowed on the passenger ferry, so Thimba will be stuck on the...
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“The world is a book….

…and those who do not travel read only one page” (Saint Augustine). Non-exisiting hotels, a recommended restaurant with a cockroach infested kitchen, or an undiscovered and unspoilt paradise with busloads of noisy Chinese. Anyone who has ever used a guidebook will have had similar...
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Shakedown trip Morocco

The ultimate dress rehearsal. Nearly two months in Morocco. From Ceuta through the Rif Mountains to the far North-East, down along the Algerian border to the Figuig oasis and South to the Moroccan Sahara. Testing everything possible on rough, stony pistes and deep sand. And I’m glad...
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