Akagera
In 1994, the year I was born, an event happened that would come to define Rwanda in the world’s collective memory and change the course...
Zambia: eye-opening, challenging, incredible.
There was something both ceremonial and strangely underwhelming about seeing our first poached elephant carcass. Approaching the scene of...
Livingston to Liuwa Plains National Park
We’ve just come to the end of 6 days in Liuwa Plain National Park. We had two objectives. To film for Time and Tide Foundation, a short...
The Painted Dog Conservation and Hwange Park, Zimbabwe
Hurtling through a forest on top of a Landrover, ducking and diving out the way of the branches overhead, battling fiercely not to get...
The Road To Hwange
As I sit in the back of a Land rover Defender whistling through Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe, there is no better time to reminisce on...
Into the Wild
“Hey mate, how are you?!”, declaims Johnno with tremendous excitement, racing down the hill to greet the first fellow cycle-tourer we had...
"Welcome to our country of Botswana"
After 9 days of continuous riding we’ve arrived in Francistown. Francistown is the second largest city in Botswana and is a bustling...
Team Dynamics: A Critical Analysis
Since leaving Balule we have cycled our way through mountains, rainforest, desert and African savannah to find ourselves 40 km away from...
The Black Mambas
It’s hard to believe that we’re already two weeks into this ludicrous trip across Africa and have already experienced so much. From...
Weird and wonderful characters...
A hell of a lot has changed since we wrote the last blog. For a start we began to cycle downhill for the first time, I’m therefore...