Day 227: The Spanish Whiskey
15.08.09: Last night we made friends with a girl called Vivian who said she would help us do the old border hop into Equatorial Guinea (the border wasn’t closed, the…
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Day 227: The Spanish Whiskey
Day 226: The Four Guineas
14.08.09: I headed over to the Equatorial Guinea embassy only to be told that all the borders were closed and that they didn’t issue tourist visas at all, ever. I’ll…
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Day 226: The Four Guineas
Day 225: The Best Chocolate Eclairs In Africa
13.08.09: I rushed to get my visas for Equatorial Guinea, DR Congo and Gabon. The visas for DR Congo and Gabon were straight forward, but the Equatorial Guinea guys suggested…
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Day 225: The Best Chocolate Eclairs In Africa
Day 224: Taps
12.08.09: Started the day in fine fettle – crossed over the border into the Central African Republic (and got tapped for €20 for my endeavours) then kicked Rocco out of…
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Day 224: Taps
Day 223: Think Once, Think Twice…
11.08.09: We arrived back at the railhead of N’Gaoundéré at about oh, god knows?, and promptly checked into a nearby hovel for about three hours of overpriced shuteye. Then at…
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Day 223: Think Once, Think Twice…
Day 222: TCHAD!
10.08.09: The train arrived at 7am in the central Cameroon town of N’Gaoundéré and, if we were VERY lucky, we could make a border hop to Chad today and get…
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Day 222: TCHAD!
Day 221: Monsooner Or Later…
09.08.09: After a couple of hours of shuteye, it was back on the case for your favourite ginger wanderer here. We left the house in search of Liberty (Yaz’s mate,…
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Day 221: Monsooner Or Later…
Day 220: Glastonburied
08.08.09: Roland woke me up by firing up his little generator outside the hut. The lights came on and so did the telly. Wow we take electricity for granted. I…
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Day 220: Glastonburied