We have completed our 3589 km loop of southern Namibia and have returned to Walvis Bay to cool off. In Namibia, you can drive from the dry desert heat of 40⁰c to coastal coolness of 20⁰c in two hours! All thanks to the Benguela current that keeps the coastal sea temperature at 12⁰c. Southern Namibia has spectacular landscapes, but not […]
Travelling down a gravel back-road towards Fish River Canyon, we were starting to wonder where we might camp as the clock hit four pm. It was then we came across a brightly painted plough with a sign for the De Klerk Boerdery (farm). We took a chance, opened the gate and trundled over a rise to be greeted by a […]
Its dry, very dry! Our visa allows us to stay up to 90 days in Namibia and we fully intend to use this time to tour the length and breadth of the country. Distances between ‘things’ are greater than in Europe and we easily drive a couple of hundred kilometres in a day. Fortunately, diesel is reasonably priced at about […]
Having waved ‘au revoir’ to Big Bertha on the dockside at Sheerness Port on a blustery July day, we have just been very happily reunited 34 days later in a hot and sunny Walvis Bay, Namibia. BB was shipped here on the Glovis Summit, a so-called RoRo (roll on roll off) vessel. The ship called in at a number of […]
Francine found a novel way to get from the UK to Namibia, but it had good and bad features. The good – a business class flight that cost less than an economy ticket (on the same flight!). The bad – it involved a slight detour via Istanbul and catching the Frankfurt/Windhoek flight the following day. So far so good – […]
We needed a place to park up in the UK upon our return from North Africa and before starting our Southern African adventure. We contacted Darts Farm in Topsham and the owners very kindly agreed to us staying on their property in return for a donation to the local air ambulance trust. Big Bertha is now on its way to […]
Distance: 7,453 miles / 11,994 kmTime: 223 daysFuel Consumption: 13.2 mpg / 21.4 l/100kmCountries: UK / Spain / Morocco / Portugal It was always our intention to have a shakedown trip before setting off on our African adventure. And we have learned a lot: about ourselves, about Big Bertha, and about overlanding. On reflection, BB is too big from an […]
Our ferry, the Pont Aven, broke down again and we found ourselves with six ‘extra’ days in Northern Spain. Inspired by the magical film ‘The Way’, we visited Santiago de Compestella and Cabo Fisterra – significant parts of the ‘Camino de Santiago’. We parked up in a town 7km outside Santiago, joined the many pilgrims and walked the Camino to […]
We pushed on through Portugal, spending only thirteen nights there before emerging into Northern Spain. Not much to say except:
We were lucky to be in Jerez visiting friends at the time of the annual Jerez Feria del Caballo. It lasts a week and is very Spanish. We joined our friends, Douglas and Carol, at Carrefour’s caseta to watch people, fireworks and the ceremonial switching on of the illuminations. It was a late night! The next day we visited during […]