Sunburn: McAlpine in Africa

[...] he may have been compensating for something. The effect of this crusade was felt by myself and Tough Guy every morning at 4am. Then there were the fading colonial buildings, baguettes and statues of [...]

[...] ;    After arrival of our mothers: 17% Check out the following vid that Tough Guy threw together about the last 17 weeks, it has the emotional resonance of a James Cameron [...]

[...] relief. It was fear. We have become feral. Our personal appearances have been the hardest hit. Tough Guy’s moustache looks like a cross between Hitler and Ron Weasley. My beard is less Kingsley [...]

[...] Mallen had proved his might by recently shrugging off the ardor of a Comrades marathon, while Tough Guy and myself had had five weeks of intense cardio, sprinting either away from hoards of Ethiopias [...]

[...] : that it is exceptional only in its mediocrity. It is almost like a small microcosm of greater West Africa: it has the arid Sahel in the north, the humid and tropical greenery of the West, it’s [...]

[...] evangelicals – the goat knows no religious affiliation. And has prospered throughout West Africa as a result of it. Self-immolations in Morocco, al-Qaeda kidnappings in the Sahel, election [...]

[...] of English is insufficient to understand our derogatory critique. This served us well through West Africa. It didn’t serve us well in Ghana. In fact, it almost got us killed. Having passed [...]

[...] for decades - hiding behind their perpetual shroud of misty goodness. It took the might of Henry Morton Stanley to finally bludgeon his way into the range, part the mists and note their snow-capped [...]

[...] an exclusive - possibly even one with a punchy catch-phrase. This journalist was Henry Morton Stanley. He wound his way across the wild interior of modern day Tanzania, found Livingston and no [...]

[...] side we saw of her, however, was a very different one. It began with a rendezvous with Kingsley Holgate - an explorer as famous for blazing trails through Africas hinterland as for felling a [...]

[...] Guy’s moustache looks like a cross between Hitler and Ron Weasley. My beard is less Kingsley Holgate and more Mr Twit. It looks like pubic hair has been stuck haphazardly on my pale cheeks by a [...]

[...] of Munich, she sailed in pieces to Dar es Salaam, took a third class carriage across to Lake Tanganyika where she found employment for her efficient and timeous German employers gayfully ferrying [...]

[...] . So he holed up with a motley crew of Arab slavers in the town of Ujiji on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, taken for dead by most of the outside world. The editor of the New York Herald sniffed a [...]

[...] Angels seem to be everywhere in Ethiopia. When they’re not trawling for gargantuan fish in Lake Tana they’re helping to chisel out great churches from solid granite. And witnessing the [...]

[...] , what else is necessary? Circa 800BC: Early Jewish civilisations settled along the shores of Lake Tana. They may have been direct decendents of the Queen of Sheba and King Solomon. Or they may have [...]

[...] to date: 16444km Funds raised for the Key School: R40,000 Peaks: 4 - Abuna Josepf (4300m), Mt Kenya (4950m), Mt Stanley (5109m), Mt Gahinga (3600m) Troughs: 2 - Danakil Depression (-116m), David [...]

[...] been pelted with rocks emerging from childrens hands. We've had our bowels rocked by Ethiopias bizarre concoctions and had them soothed by Ugandas chapti and beans.  Ive had my bus fare paid for [...]