still alive, southern Morocco, nothing works no telephone no ATM machines nothing; then folks into Mauritainia and a whole new world of what a dictatorship is like, if Sweet FA worked in Morocco this place is the pits.
We decided to get through it as fast as poss. 10 passport checks in 150km, this in 45deg heat,its about 1000km of shithole desert to get through.Stressed damed right
we took a wrong turning at Noukachott and wound up on the road to Aleg, as we have no plan there is no such thing as a wrong turning, right, so as we could see a border crossing at Bohgie we carried on.
Yes there is a ferry across the river there, trouble is its 3 bleedin canoes, sooooo, what do you do when its 450km to go back.
Bikes loaded into canoes and off we go, got our passports stamped by a guy under a tree on the Maurutania side, on the other side nothin except 30km of dirt track and its now going dark,
We are now in Senegal totally illegal and nobody to stamp our passports and more important no water or food and no Senegal money, hey ho,happy days.
We are not muppets and set off with food and plenty of water, as much as we could carry on the bikes.
We were knackered and found a villiage that let us put the tent up next to the elders gaff, Senegal is a revelation after the shit hole that is Mauritainia, smiling people happy kids food and water.
We slept like logs and in the morning set off for St Louis, got collared coming into town for no bleedin insurance, never mind we have no entry stamp on the passports, still havn,t we will tackle that later today
We do now have African insurance the guy who pulled us was cool about it and arranged it for us instead of locking us up.
Installed at the Hotel de post in St louis, all is very well, beers 2 quid and cold, food is great, every one smiles, even this internet cafe works cos bugger all in the last 2000km has, Bruce is well happy cos we are gettin some washing done by somebody else,
We need new rear tyres for the bikes and this is our project for tomorrow, do we get them here or have them DHL,d to the Gambia,
Watch this space
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3 comments:
Good write up guy's - would love to see that photo of your bikes loaded in a cannoe different or what.
One thing interests me which you haven't commented on yet is how you are getting fuel - is it reletively in good supply in villiages - or are you having to detour to get it?
Pete if you want to email me a couple of photo's every once in a while I will upload them for you. you will need to remind me of your password though as I never made a note of it.
Stay Cool and Hang Loose you two
The-Lovely Wendy sends her Love and we are still consumong copious amounts of Red...
nbddzrI was planning a visit can you come back home?
Have fun, next week I'm in the UK, hoping it is not raining.
Jan teabag47
Nice to hear news from you two again!
I also 'd like to see those bikes carriers on the water.
see you soon
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