LongerWayDown http://www.longerwaydown.com It's all about Africa Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:26:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3 en Not dead, just resting http://www.longerwaydown.com/2008/10/27/not-dead-just-resting/ http://www.longerwaydown.com/2008/10/27/not-dead-just-resting/#comments Sun, 26 Oct 2008 23:58:59 +0000 Simon http://www.longerwaydown.com/2008/10/27/not-dead-just-resting/ We bet that your keen eye has noticed a promising message at the end of the previous post. It is not all over just yet indeed. We would like to conclude this bumpy ride with a post formed of photos straight from the frontline of the battlefield.

 

The selection was pretty much random so to many of you this might be just a boring set of photos, but perhaps there will be a soul or two who will find it all quite interesting. And for you bunch, enjoy!

 

France

 

 

Germany

 

 

Switzerland

 

 

Lichtenstein

 

We’ve put the shutter release setting to the fastest, but before we managed to press the trigger Lichtenstein was behind us. Too bad.
Austria

 

 

Slovenia

 

 

Croatia

 

 

Bosnia and Herzegovina

 

 

Montenegro

 

 

Albania

 

 

Macedonia- Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM)

 

 

Greece

 

 

Turkey

 

 

Syria

 

 

Jordan

 

 

Egypt

 

 

Sudan

 

 

Ethiopia

 

 

Kenya

 

 

Uganda

 

 

Rwanda

 

 

Tanzania

 

 

Zanzibar

 

 

Malawi

 

 

Mozambique

 

Zambia

 

 

Botswana

 

 

Namibia

 

 

South Africa

 

 

The end.

 

]]> http://www.longerwaydown.com/2008/10/27/not-dead-just-resting/feed/ Down. http://www.longerwaydown.com/2008/09/15/down/ http://www.longerwaydown.com/2008/09/15/down/#comments Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:36:54 +0000 Simon http://www.longerwaydown.com/2008/09/15/down/ Let’s make this short (it could get quite passionate otherwise): server died, no backups, too bad.

Despite this we are pleased to announce that we’ve made it to South Africa, more importanly we’ve found a safe shelter with the penguins in Simon’s Town.

On Sunday the first group of survivors will be boarding a plane for London, the rest will follow a day after.

A mighty car will be boarding this beauty a week after:

As spectacular as this trip was, there is still a week to go, so stay tuned, it’s not all over just yet.

]]> http://www.longerwaydown.com/2008/09/15/down/feed/ So long, and thanks for all the fish http://www.longerwaydown.com/2008/04/27/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/ http://www.longerwaydown.com/2008/04/27/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/#comments Sun, 27 Apr 2008 08:58:03 +0000 Simon http://www.longerwaydown.com/2008/04/27/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/ Thank you all fellow thinkers and doers who attended the farewell ceremony this Saturday at the House of Love.

It was an incredible international get-together filled with emotions, encouraging words and inspirational thoughts. And there was beer too.

The day that followed brought the idea of Tuesday departure from isolation as the significant presence of after-party laziness and the boycott of cleaning and packing prevailed throughout Sunday.

So we’re leaving this Tuesday - hurray!

We love you, and you, and you too.

Party continues on the Car of Love

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Under a nice Oak tree, some say at least 1K years old, we spent the first night surrounded by sheep.  A little bit colder than what we expect, but that will do. We did a little bit off road and the car took it without even hesitating.

After a couple of days no major issues to report, and now the landy is back with the experts to finish our wish list…

“To be honest”, we did run out of gas…maybe…but that’s a different story ¬¬

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During training with the Protrax guys, we started to realize that we didn’t know anything about driving off-road. Peter’s favourite was stalling in the middle of ascents, Simon enjoyed sliding the clutch to oblivion and Pere thought the engine ought to be shut down at regular intervals for a little siesta, particularly just before trying to scale hills. After the day was done though, we knew better. Sort of.

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]]> http://www.longerwaydown.com/2008/04/07/rough-times/feed/ Land Rover comes home http://www.longerwaydown.com/2008/04/05/land-rover-comes-home/ http://www.longerwaydown.com/2008/04/05/land-rover-comes-home/#comments Sat, 05 Apr 2008 16:00:14 +0000 Simon http://www.longerwaydown.com/2008/04/07/land-rover-comes-home/ The Land Rover came home and eventually started covering our driveway with diesel and other mysterious fluids.

Champagne was flowing and poses were struck.

Macho Overlander Posers

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Foley Specialist Vehicles was the overland modification experts that we hired to buy and kit out the Land Rover for our long journey.

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We were very happy to see that the engine was there as well.

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]]> http://www.longerwaydown.com/2008/04/03/the-batmobile/feed/ Long, Longer, Longest http://www.longerwaydown.com/2007/11/23/long-longer-longest/ http://www.longerwaydown.com/2007/11/23/long-longer-longest/#comments Fri, 23 Nov 2007 07:27:52 +0000 Simon http://www.longerwaydown.com/?p=3 Three guys and one car. Thousands of miles, a tin whistle, a harmonica and a clarinet. Not just a long trip, certainly also not the longest, but rest assured that it will be longer than long way down from Cambridge to the southernmost peak of the African continent. Priceless.

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