Month: April 2016
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Helping to promote Alan’s tours
I now appear on Alan’s tours website here:- http://www.alantours.co.za/listing/geoff_21022016 Unfortunately the link doesn’t work on mobile devices as it redirects to their mobi.alantours.co.za website and strips the last bit of the url 🙁 🙁
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Africa biking trip stats
Here’s my little spreadsheet of the 1,981 miles of biking I did with links to the Strava files:- Africa biking trip Trip Totals 1,981 73,790 3,170 Daily average, biking days 62 2,306 99 Bike Day # Day Date Place (link to Strava) Accomodation Distance (Miles) Ascent (feet) Distance Km Night 1 Thursday 18-Feb-2016 Heathrow at…
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25090 A walking day at Victoria Falls
Wednesday 6th April I didn’t sleep at all well, maybe it was the excitement of visiting the Victoria Falls a childhood dream or maybe it was the bed! The previous evening had been pretty awful with all the locals dossing about watching football 🙁 plus a silly ticketing system at the bar. Unfortunately for me…
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25089 Biking Kasane to Victoria Falls
Tuesday, April 5, 2016 I left The Old House jut before 8am after the owner rescued the girl from faffing about on her ancient Windows PC trying to sort the bill out. The day started with a brisk headwind as you can see from the flags image and a climb of cause. Reaching the main…
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25088 Chobe River Excursion
Today was a rest day in Kasang catching up on my posts and getting my images online whilst my Botswana SIM card still works. The Old House b&b has a frontage onto The Chobe River just before it merges with The Zambezi. They offer a 3 hour river trip heading along the Chobe National Park.…
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25086 and 25087 Chobe Safari Drive – Maun to Kasane
Sat 2 April 2016 to Sun 3 April 2016 The larger than life character KG (Kgaga) appeared with his Toyota Land Cruiser to take me and my bike to the camping place near Savuti. We had an instant rapport especially since he is a carnivore and I a vegetarian but both Leo’s 🙂 Strange to be…
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25084 to 25085 – Resting & Planning in Maun
Thurs 31 March and Friday 1st April Sarah & Scott had cycled the route I intended doing, down The Elephant Road from Kasingula to Nata then across to Maun. A distance of about 382 miles on tarmac, they however had camped & carried food. In my youth I would have just done it but age…
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25083 -Biking from Sehithwa to Maun in Botswana
Wed 30 March 2016 After not a very good sleep I woke to find no promised breakfast, a total absence of vehicles or any sign of life in the courtyard. So at 7.45 I departed from Monlek Lodge with not very warm feelings towards it’s owner, especially since my 15 Pula change never appeared after…
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Day 25082 Ghanzi to Sehithwa
Ridden 29 Mar 2016 After yesterdays rest day were the checkout supervisor at Choppies kindly sorted out my Orange SIM card for me, although I felt a bit bad about giving Orange 400 Pula so I could buy 2 gigs of data. The retail shop wages are 4.32 an hour so it’s nearly the equivalent of 100…