Monday, 04 June 2007

New, better blog

If you think that was a trip, you should take a look at this new blog. Its got a map and everything!



Friday, 01 June 2007

The Photo Montage

Its been one hell of a trip and i'm so happy that mattie and Jared gave me a call on that fateful christmas day! Thanks guys! Also thank you to everyone that has given us feedback on the blog, its been awesome hearing from all of you! Mattie and I are now in Belgrade on our way to Holland, and Jared is struggling to get a schengen visa in London.


Enjoy the pics, its been real!


(feel free to add in your own cheesy montage sountrack, push play now)
Oh... Just checked what this looks like when its published and saw that the captions are squashed... badly. Sorry about that, Blogger doesnt seem to encourage photo posts, and the post looks amazing in the edit screen (which for some reason is different to the final post) anyway, I'm not re-editing the whole post...


The sun rising over the makgadigadi salt pans... note the 2 ton hilux slowly sinking in the foreground

Soaked after Victoria Falls


Jared not too staked at his recent appointment as luggage handler
Jared - Malawi 2007

Matt and Jared - Malawi 2007

Riders of the storm soaking up some rays on Paje beach

hot

Tending to Stanley in Southern Kenya

Lank antisocial train journey to Mombasa

Close up of Mattie wearing a hat with a wide angle lens

Close up of tourists wearing hats with a wide angle lens (cue music)




The epic second ever international stone skipping contest 2007 Lamu archipelago
Mattie takes the lead, Andi the adjudicator watching on

This is the beach from hell, dont be fooled, if you see this place, run!

Our tame accountant, running the numbers

Enjoying Hells gate before we crashed and the shit hit the fan




mustafa's gorge

Majesty

Jared

Ken dealing with Autoritei

The overlander to pride rock





Equator

Me and my buddy

Waiting patiently for a lift

Spreading crazy eights throughout africa

View of the convoy from our truck






Truck drive through Chalbi Desert... to Ethiopia

Debre Zeit camp site with Esther

Coldest morning of his life

Nick checking out our route plans though the window (The were stalking us)


A pit stop in Ethiopia






lalibella church
























Mattie in a prayer hole... It worked




















St George's

Priest








Ouzzo


















Essie doing the tourist thing in Lalibella

Mattie and jared paying for their sins


lalibella Church, chipped out of a mountain
Gonder castle
- 2007
Sudan, the start of the desert camping trip











Jared riding to the piramids of Meru

Mattie

Pd

The Piramids of meru - The Suda
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Our camp site









The sun rose, and out of nowhere arrived this salesman and his donkey... amazing
Jared couldnt handle the majesty so his nose started to bleed

A bit of a stroll to the Royal enclosure

Hot

Nubian Express












Mattie attempting to look comfortable, simply to piss off those around him

Dirty, dirty man

Wadi-Halfa, good to walk again after 40 hours of train

Nick and Sam...














Good times









Mattie and the Felucca captain (The Boss)

Hats

Egypts finest whisky and Gin (John Warder and Gordoon's)

Our R6 pp/night accomodation in Aswan

Chilling out on the Felucca on our way to Komombo













The white symbolises purity and rebirth, while the egyptian cotton is a symbol of Egypt



The trio at the Sphinx

Mattie

The Album Cover...

Look at that purity
















Jared... aka Ginger spice






We could hardly keep the groupies off us... so inevitably there had to be a picture... she likes mattie the most

Pd and jared

Pd and Mattie

Jared and mattie








All for one...






The end.