Adventure Overland Show 2015 There were so many amazing trucks: trucks that looked virtually indestructible and ready to take on the world! The sun was beating down temptingly, what a day to set off on an overland adventure across Europe, over to Morocco or head...
Copenhagen to Finland, via Stockholm A fascinating bridge links Denmark and Sweden across the Øresund Sound, it vanishes under the water as a tunnel only to reappear on a spit of land half way across to sweep over the final half to Sweden. The Øresund Bridge turns into...
The Bangkok to Butterworth Train: The International Express from Thailand to Malaysia. Penang: it is one of my favourite places on earth. This small island in the north-western coast of peninsula Malaysia is a melting pot of culture; feed your eyes, your belly and your...
Two months of travel in China drew to a close, it was time to move on, with a few days left on our visas we departed Yangshuo on the bus to Guilin, a journey we had made a few times since basing ourselves in the...
After our little break in Hong Kong we headed back to mainland China just before christmas. Our destination was Yangshuo, we took a train from Hung Hom to Guangzhou East which was a pleasant, smooth ride complete with Hong Kong egg tarts and a cup...
The sun had peeped out from the grey snow clouds by the time we were driving out of the Yolyn Am gorge and when we eventually stopped for lunch it was a clear sunny day. Bata’s usually impeccable navigation seemed a little off for...
Yolyn Am After our fun frolicking in the Khongoryn Sand Dunes, another day in our little Soviet van beckoned. We would be heading to Yolyn Am, a rocky canyon to the west. From the dunes we travelled through the wide valley, the dunes to the...
We reached an extremely wide, featureless and bird-less plain, the van ground to a halt. From the noise we knew this didn’t sound good. We had broken down.
There are few blacktop roads in Mongolia once you leave the smog blanketed chaos of Ulaanbaatar, out in the desert it takes knowledge and experience to navigate the wide open plains. The sun and the stars become your road signs, mountains and rock formations guide...
On Thursday 10th October we departed London St Pancras on the Eurostar bound for Brussels. The aim of this adventure is to travel from the UK to Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam entirely by train. This was our first leg, heading to Poland. We...
Later that evening we left Cairo, to return in a few days, and took the night train to Aswan…. We arrived in Aswan and had booked into our hotel by midday. From our side balcony we could see the Nile and the felucca touts bothering...
I woke to find the sun had come up on a new day. It was 6.30 am, we had arrived at Nuweiba, Egypt. The ferry took ages to dock at Nuweiba ferry port but once we were off we were waved through customs and the...
By the following evening we were sipping fresh orange and carrot juice on the busy streets of Amman… It was an easy and comfortable bus journey from Damascus to Amman. We shared the bus with some very well-behaved Jordanian school boys in football strips and...
And so we found ourselves in one of the oldest, continually inhabited cities in the world, Damascus… Damascus is one of those places which is at the same time both real and mythical. It is a place which crops up in the Bible as well...
Now the adventure really began, we had arrived in Syria…… So I’ll pick up where I left off: Travelling from Istanbul to Aleppo on the Toros Express Train. We had crossed the Turkey/Syria border with no problem. We hadn’t even had to leave the train,...
