first full day on the Rally Raid KTM 690..

This morning around 7am, I left Strand in the Western Cape heading for Ceres. I took the R44, through Stellenbosch over the N1 highway to Wellington. I filled up all my tanks at Wellington, about 13L including the fuel that was in there already. I headed straight for Ceres via the Bain’s Kloof pass, beautiful [...]

some new videos, Ethiopia and Malawi …

It’s been a few months now since I have returned to the UK after my trip down Africa. I have now finally settled down in Kent and all my computers are set up and stuff … so when I’m bored I’m slowly doing some videos of the trip … the two most recent ones are [...]

… when hell freezes over …

Well, it almost feels like it. Back in London, UK and I am absolutely freezing. The bike is still in sunny South Africa due to board a Virgin Atlantic flight on Monday night, so should have my wheels back my next week. I also ordered some handlebar muffs, I do not care if it looks [...]

closer and closer, already in Zambia

I left the lovely Madidi Lodge in Lilongwe, Malawi for only a short little 140km ride to the Zambia border. Upon my arrival as usual, you get overwhelmed by all the money changers, this time, I am ready and equipped with an iPhone app with all the currencies, bargained with them and changed my 11000 [...]

F800GS Problems

Looking at my blog stats, I have noticed the many readers find my blog by searching for “F800GS problems” … I would just like to say, apart from the problems in Egypt and Sudan … which was only a faulty side stand switch, most probably because it once fell over its own side stand in [...]

What the heck .. Malawi.

Sorry for the long post .. going to cover Malawi in one post … Tanzania – Malawi border was easy going … except for all these money changers at the borders, but I have found a way of dealing with them now. It is not me who wants the cash, they want to get rid [...]

Down Tanzania – Part 3

Last leg of Tanzania … the road the Tunduma, where tarmac starts again all the way to the Malawi border. Again, as usual on this trip .. up early, packed everything, had some scrambled egg on toast and Africafe instant coffee in the restaurant of the country club. I set off, but the road is [...]

Down Tanzania – Part 1

I have divided this road down Tanzania into 3 parts, first day would be to Mpanda, second day to Sumbawanga and the last day before I cross the border into Malawi would be to Mbeya. The first day is from Kigoma, down a very small and unmarked road to Uvinza and then down the B8 [...]

To ferry or not to ferry …

We arrived in Kigoma a few days ago and whallah … Visa ATM machine Lindsay said we should maybe go to the port first to find out how much a ferry would be, then we know how much money to get, so off we went … At the ferry port, we found out there is [...]

White Water River rafting …. Jinja, Uganda

After we left Camp Carnelleys we wanted to camp on Lake Victoria .. but we decided to head straight for the Ugandan border. We arrived quite late in the afternoon at Malaba, the border between Kenya/Uganda. After all the formatilities at the border (-$40 later for third party insurance as well) it was quite dark [...]