Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Another thank you
A big thanks to Amanda who also turned up with half the rainforest in the form of Sunday newspapers, a private eye, books, motorcycle news, bike magazine the whole yearly production of the duchy of cornwalls bacon supply, and most of that weeks production of cheddar cheese n stillton, a 14mm spanner, a 14mm socket, some chain lube, wd40 an a grease nipple. ta Amanda
Friday, October 24, 2008
winding up
Thats about it for today folks, we are awaiting a quote for shipping the bikes from here to Nairobi and will then set about east africa,
For one thing its to dangerous to head through the centre, for another to expensive, the visas are outragous prices, 250 us each for angola , DRC 150 us each, Namibia 100 us this is for us to travel for a few days there,
Shit we can fly for less and more safely..
Pete n Bruce
For one thing its to dangerous to head through the centre, for another to expensive, the visas are outragous prices, 250 us each for angola , DRC 150 us each, Namibia 100 us this is for us to travel for a few days there,
Shit we can fly for less and more safely..
Pete n Bruce
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Shit that was a hard day, I,ve been sat here 4 hrs but I,ve learned a lot, Tony and Dan would be proud,
Patrick at the hotel is a star and you may all see some more pictures tomorrow if you are really really good and eat all your tea and go to bed without arguing
Guess where were going now,, its easy slurp slurp
Patrick at the hotel is a star and you may all see some more pictures tomorrow if you are really really good and eat all your tea and go to bed without arguing
Guess where were going now,, its easy slurp slurp
Ghana
We travelled south from the border, over the white volta river,
I thought that was in russia, hey ho. then across the black volta river,
it looked just like the white one,
We had a overnight stop at Tamale where we discovered that some places in Ghana have joined the no smoking club, very very strange, this was not a posh hotel.
We have been using a webb site called horizonsunlimited get some advance information about acomodation and we decided to head for a place called green turtle beach, run by a couple of english, real nice people, Tom and Jo, unfortunately as we hadn,t booked we could only stay 3 days before we were evicted.
We moved to the next place down the beach called safari lodge ,run by 2 muppets who should get another job, a place to avoid
I thought that was in russia, hey ho. then across the black volta river,
it looked just like the white one,
We had a overnight stop at Tamale where we discovered that some places in Ghana have joined the no smoking club, very very strange, this was not a posh hotel.
We have been using a webb site called horizonsunlimited get some advance information about acomodation and we decided to head for a place called green turtle beach, run by a couple of english, real nice people, Tom and Jo, unfortunately as we hadn,t booked we could only stay 3 days before we were evicted.
We moved to the next place down the beach called safari lodge ,run by 2 muppets who should get another job, a place to avoid
Mali/ Burkina
Headed on across Burkina to Ouagadougou, the capital to get our visa for Ghana, another 2 day affair but a really nice friendly city, got some small bits that I needed to replace on the bikes, a few bolts had fallen off.
Sean by this time had aranged to meet us in Ghana and would be bringing new brake pads for both bikes,, plus bacon, sausages, cheese and a fray bentos chicken an mushroom pie, I kid you not,
thanks mate but I still cant figure out how to cook the pie on a primus stove .
Oh yes he also brought industrial quantities of newspapers.
Visas got we headed off to Ghana, we crossed the border at Bolgatanga into Ghana with a cheerful welcome to Ghana from aall the officials.
Beer oclock now. Ghana deserves its own story.
Can I just welcome the SEM, I believe Dan has stickied us there, an hi Loz how goes it chuck
Sean by this time had aranged to meet us in Ghana and would be bringing new brake pads for both bikes,, plus bacon, sausages, cheese and a fray bentos chicken an mushroom pie, I kid you not,
thanks mate but I still cant figure out how to cook the pie on a primus stove .
Oh yes he also brought industrial quantities of newspapers.
Visas got we headed off to Ghana, we crossed the border at Bolgatanga into Ghana with a cheerful welcome to Ghana from aall the officials.
Beer oclock now. Ghana deserves its own story.
Can I just welcome the SEM, I believe Dan has stickied us there, an hi Loz how goes it chuck
Guinea and onwards
We then headed up to Kankan on proper roads, Bruce was a very happy bunny. we crossed thee border into Mali and stopped for 2 nights in Bamako because wwe had to wait 2 days for our visa for Burkina faso, we treated ourselves to a proper hotel for the last night there,, the first night was in,,,,,,,,, yes your right another brothel.
I still had some Siera leone money left and had to go to the market to change it up,,
quite an experience even for me,
kicking chickens and goats out of the way this old girl made room for me in her shack and we proceeded to haggle over the dough, I got a really good deal in the end and she offered me her daughter as part of the deal. cackling away we shook hands san daughter
Onwards the next day to Segou which is on the banks of the Niger, really impressive, we stayed there days,, the ATM machines worked FFS.
The next day we headed for the Burkina border where we saw a computer for the first time , the guy actually put our visa numbers in it, we were very impressed till I realised that he would have to take it to the capital to download it.
Never the less a very civilised border crossing
I still had some Siera leone money left and had to go to the market to change it up,,
quite an experience even for me,
kicking chickens and goats out of the way this old girl made room for me in her shack and we proceeded to haggle over the dough, I got a really good deal in the end and she offered me her daughter as part of the deal. cackling away we shook hands san daughter
Onwards the next day to Segou which is on the banks of the Niger, really impressive, we stayed there days,, the ATM machines worked FFS.
The next day we headed for the Burkina border where we saw a computer for the first time , the guy actually put our visa numbers in it, we were very impressed till I realised that he would have to take it to the capital to download it.
Never the less a very civilised border crossing
Update/////// a bit
We are currently in bloody paradise, Busua beach infact 150mls west of Accra in Ghana,
we have had some visitors out to see us, Sean an old pal of ours arrived here and spent a week with us down at safari beach, then Amanda arrived on the same flight Sean went back on,,
so we have been busy entertaining people which was nice but kind of strange as the only real people in our lives on the road have been ourselves,
Great to see you both and I have a guy here at this bloody expensive internet in a 5 star hotel is going to help me put some photos on,, we are not staying here by the way just using the interweb jobby.
After our fiasco leaving Sierra Leone we left Farina in Guinea and headed south to Kissidugu then north to Bamako . I,m going to post this now and then start again as we haad a power cut yesterday aand I lost a page of text so left in disgust and went for a beer,
can anybody spot the recuring theme here?
we have had some visitors out to see us, Sean an old pal of ours arrived here and spent a week with us down at safari beach, then Amanda arrived on the same flight Sean went back on,,
so we have been busy entertaining people which was nice but kind of strange as the only real people in our lives on the road have been ourselves,
Great to see you both and I have a guy here at this bloody expensive internet in a 5 star hotel is going to help me put some photos on,, we are not staying here by the way just using the interweb jobby.
After our fiasco leaving Sierra Leone we left Farina in Guinea and headed south to Kissidugu then north to Bamako . I,m going to post this now and then start again as we haad a power cut yesterday aand I lost a page of text so left in disgust and went for a beer,
can anybody spot the recuring theme here?
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