Down Right Kenya  

After recieving so many eager messages of support and some very generous cash donatıons (over £200 in total….thank you!) I finally went ahead and let the boys chop my hair off! Master haırdressers that they are, after 10 mins or so i was lookıng very Dolores O’Riordan. İ finished off my new style with a tidy up shave [...]

Filed under: Marie, Team: Spork on November 30th, 2008 | 5 Comments »

Just a little snippet…..
Presenting the D-100, a main road that leads from the west, into the hectic sprawling city that is Istanbul (apart from the motorway which we only just avoided!). A road both Safari Njema and Jua Kali had to brave at the end of the European Continent.
Bigger than most UK motorways and a final challenge for all, the cycling equivalent [...]

Filed under: Mark, Team: Jua Kali on November 28th, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Smiling saves lives. If ever anyone cast this simple truth in doubt, a reliving of the European leg of our journey would surely set them straight. The Surgeon General himself, would issue a statement posthaste, prominently affixed to packages of Haribo and shipped worldwıde.
At a very lovely dinner prepared by Christ Church in Istanbul, when [...]

Filed under: Joanna, Team: Safari Njema on November 26th, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Hello all!
For the last few days on the bike I’ve been deep in thought trying to think of ways to bump up my fundraising total which has been hovering at just over 2000 pounds for far too long! I have come to the conclusion that it would have to be something quite spectacular to make people [...]

Filed under: Marie, Team: Spork on November 19th, 2008 | 2 Comments »

We’ve sadly left Italy behind and are now motoring around some of Greece’s 12 million kilometres of coastland. Southern Italy proved to be the most exciting and interesting area of Italy - plenty of people out on the street and all willing to listen as we slowly explained what we are up to. We even got accustomed to [...]

Filed under: Simon, Team: Spork on November 18th, 2008 | No Comments »

PK smoothing it up in Jiangxi…

Our spy in China sent us this:
“Hey guys. Is PK lost??
This was outside a v.seedy nightclub in jiangxi province!!”

Filed under: Home Team, PK, Team: Safari Njema on November 18th, 2008 | No Comments »

Having left the beautiful city of Budapest, we set off towards Belgrade with the determination to stick to our schedule and get at least 80kms each day. We had just stopped for lunch in a nature reserve when Mark received a message from (home team) Sarah - did we know that Szeged (in southern Hungary) [...]

Filed under: Adrienne, Team: Jua Kali on November 14th, 2008 | 6 Comments »