While not necessarily a camping or Africa preparation trip, what follows is a brief update on our New Years trip to Weymouth and other general news...Initially we were going to camp in Cathey, although at the last minute we changed our mind and decided to take up two spaces in the cute cottages right in the town centre that Tracey had booked. This turned out to be an inspired decision as once again the weather was not exactly camping friendly! Also we were right ...

T minus 28 days and counting….. Yes, we leave the UK at the end of this month, basically 4 weeks to go. Our ferry leaves for Spain from Portsmouth on 01st Feb 07 and we will probably leave London a day or 2 before then!Rob has “officially” finished work but will still be doing a few more days handover this week with possibly one more day next week & hopefully that will be it. Inga on the other hand is working up until the 26th of Jan. Seein...

Saturday evening saw us hooking up with Bronwyn and Andrew of www.4x4xafrica.com at Crystal Palace in London for overnight camping, the starting point of the 2006 SLSLRC L2B Land Rover Run (hows that for an acronym!)We had a pleasant evening camping with a  bit of rain once again but not too bad. Slightly interrupted nights sleep too, due to wind rattling the tent as usual. Maybe we should have slept inside as Inga suggested!From abo...

Things we learnt on our trip round the UK:1. You can't escape UK bank holiday weekend traffic jams (or any other weekend for that matter). 3 hrs on the M4 leaving London and who knows how long sat in traffic on the M1 on the way back2. People are not exagerating about the midges in Scotland as we thought they might have been. I would even have bought one of those "head-net" hats if I had seen one, no matter how stupid they m...

Continuing on our trip from where we left off under the Ireland "update", we caught a 07h30 ferry from Larne in Northern Ireland to Troon, Scotland. We headed straight for Stirling for a sightseeing stop: William Wallace Monument, Stirling Castle and Bridge of Allan ect before continuing north-westwards. We bushcamped for the first time in UK on the banks of Loch Awe and had our first and only braai which was great, just us on our ow...