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Current Trip - Africa 2006/2007
Northampton to Cape Town -
By bike (no, not a motor bike!)
The plan is quite simple... Ride a bicycle from Northampton, England to
Cape Town, South Africa. I leave on July 23rd 2006 at 6.15 am, (that's
precision planning for you!)
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23/06/06 - A month to go!! I've
had
my first two doses of the rabies vaccination, and have two more to go. I've
handed my notice in to the landlord, and let work know. As I type this,
I'm looking at my bike, wishing I could leave on my trip now! Help
spread the word about this website, and make me your homepage!
03/05/06 - The India
Travelogue is now finished and online, spread out over 9
pages. For an overview of my thoughts after my India experience try
this.
25/04/06 - New ... Sign up for
my Newsletter
and receive regular updates whilst I'm on the road!
09/04/06 - A departure date of 23rd July 2006 looks more or less
certain now. I was also pleasantly suprised to find that my website now
has a Google rank of four. Hopefully, this will mean more visitors, and
more people clicking on the various adverts around the site. Who knows,
hopefully I will get to the stage where I can earn an income big enough
to travel fulltime !! Find out about Google
Ranking.
25/03/06 - All the visa planning is now done. It's just a matter of
saving cash now, ready for an end of July departure. The cycling to
work and back is going really well, and it makes such a change to be
cycling in daylight now!
27/02/06 - A rough route has been worked out all the way to Istanbul.
I'm just working on my visa planning, available from the link above.
Have in mind a departure date of July 21st. (Don't know why, just
sounds good to me!)
31/01/06 - Can't believe its the end of January already!! The money
situation is going ok, but probably looking at an August departure.
Route planning is going well, and general training of cycling to work
is fine. Have been away a couple of times this month to Berlin,
and to Bath
and Avebury.
26/12/05 - Christmas out of the way, and Santa bought me a couple of
things for the bike, which was nice! Lots of pedalling needed to burn
off a frenzy of chocolate! The first draft of a route is here.
11/12/05 - Have bought a selection of general country maps to improve
my knowledge of the geography of the areas I'll be travelling though.
Got some waterproof cycling gear. Hoping Santa will bring me some
goodies I can use on the trip!
06/12/05 - Have bought a bike, which is a Dawes
Super Galaxy touring bike. Riding it to work occasionally,
but early start times and late finishes mean most of it's in the dark!
Have planned a rough route, which would be the Eastern Africa one.
Basically cycle from the UK, through France, Germany, follow the River
Danube, through some of eastern Europe to Turkey. From there through
the Middle East to Egypt, then through the Sudan, Ethiopia, and down
the east coast of Africa before reaching Cape Town. Sounds pretty
simple!! Estimated time of Departure - 01/06/06.
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