As some of you may know, we recently returned from a 10 day “feet-finding” trip around the UK – mainly Scotland and Ireland. The purpose was two-fold really: 1) Test out camping gear and iron out any potential mechanical niggles that may have crept in on a long road trip (luckily there were none :-) 2) Sightseeing: Inga had never been to Ireland (besides Dublin) or Scotland before and Rob, although having visited both before, had never...

A huge thanks to Nick & Vick of www.langebaan-sunset.com for organisng such a successful and enjoyable weekend outing. And for putting us up for the night and hosting a memorable braai! It was great to meet new faces and catch up with the more familiar ones. We all enjoyed wandering around the 4x4 tracks on the Salisbury plains. For those of you that don't know these public roads/right of ways cross live military testing ground areas but are open to ...

Things we have learnt from Billing Aquadrome, Land Rover Enthusiast show, 21-23 August 2006: 1. We have a very waterproof and gale resistant dome tent (pitty it's not going to Africa) don't know if you heard about the rain storm on Sat. but it was pretty epic! Gazebos trashed left right and centre, and a few roof tents & caravans taken out by falling branches! 2. Very impressed with our MSR primus stove - courtesy of Ing's Dad - which we used for ...

Firstly a big, big thank you to Sebastian (Inga's brother) and Niel for babysitiing Cathey for the past few months - and SA dentist below them! (We have been storing her at their place in Reading due to space and security reasons) Also a huge thank you to the 2 of them for helping us out working on Cathey and also for all the ideas and suggestions. Also thanks for putting us up over the past 2 weekends in Reading. It has been really good for us to be able to ...

We were 'showing Cathey off a bit yesterday' at a braai organised by friends of ours who are doing the trip too together with others who we have been in contact with through their website. Check out www.4x4xafrica.com (Bronwyn and Andrew) Unfortunately not too many of our own photos so we had to "borrow" one from Bronwyn! (Thanks Bron ;-) A big thanks to Bron and Andrew for organising such a good event. It was nice to meet up and finally pu...