Category: Africa

Location: Triploi (N32.54446 E13.16070) Miles travelled: 316 miles Weather: 30ºC - Hot sunny and dusty Today we mostly listened to: Kings of Leon We set off early this morning from Sfax, if you're planning to do this trip plan to avoid Sfax, it's an uninviting hole in the desert. Stay in Sousse or DJerba. As we travelled south the landscape turned from Mediterranean to desert quite quickly and before we knew it we were at the Libyan border. Tip: Fuel is a lot cheaper in Libya so don't worry about filling up before you get there. Our border crossing was quite painless, under two hours which is good apparently. On the Tunisian side they did ask "do you have any beer or whiskey" to which we replied confidently "no". We…

Location: Sfax Miles travelled: TBC Weather: 28ºC - Cloudy with sunny spells Today we mostly listened to: Paul Simon (Today), Tunisian music in the front of a recovery vehicle (yesterday) Although Tunis is quite a nice place we woke yesterday glad we were going to get moving. We picked up Monty from the garage at about 3pm, the new clutch had been fitted and we were ready for the road. Then the noise came back, not the same noise but more of a heavy squeaking. Eager to get on and convinced it couldn't be the clutch we pushed on. 37 miles later there was a big bang then a lot of rattling from under the footwell and looking in my mirror and seeing a large piece of metal skipping along…

Location: Hammamet (N36.24236 E10.33664) and Tunis Miles travelled: 50 miles Weather: 26ºC - 30ºC - sunny with big storm clouds too Today we mostly listened to: Prince (today), Arcade Fire (yesterday) Useful info: The campsite we stayed at was called Camping/Hotel Samaris (just outside of Hammamet) - hotel.jasmins@gnet.tn So we spent a fine day in Hammamet yesterday walking along the beach and running in to huts everytime a big storm cloud came over.  We ate lunch in a nice hotel (blowing the days budget in one go).  We must have walked for about 5km in total so feel like we've done our exercise for the week.  We went back to the campsite around 5ish and made dinner whilst it was still light.  Scrabble and more gin followed.  I cant remember…

Location: Hammamet (N36.24236 E10.33664) Click to view Miles travelled: 96 miles Weather: 29ºC Sunny all day then Thunderstorm in the evening Today we mostly listened to: Elbow - Seldom seen kid Our main mission today was to find the Land Rover Dealer (N36 43.665 E10 14.390) so that we can take Monty there first thing tomorrow to get the clutch, which doesn't seem to be getting worse but isn't getting better either, fixed. After deliberating over our two "official" Tunis maps we found a route and set off. Unfortunately these maps are a bit like the ones you get at theme parks showing you where the rides are and therefore not exactly accurate. There are roads on them that don't exist and roads that exist that aren't on them, so…

Location: Gammarth, near Tunis Today we mostly listened to: Funny wailing music in taxis Miles travelled: 10 miles between Gammarth, Tunis and Sidi Bou Said Weather: 30ºC Sunny It took us about 2 hours to get through Tunisian customs on Thursday night.  It then took us another hour to find our hotel, which was only 15 mins away from the port - doh.  We stopped to ask a lovely policeman for directions and he proceeded to escort us in the general direction of our hotel getting us back on track - so far the Tunisians we have met have been very nice and helpful people. Our hotel is lovely (a bit too nice really so we feel we are cheating) but it has secure parking and there isn't really anywhere…