dakar challenge

  • Timbuktu and Bust

    Timbuktu and Bust

    Journalist, Eugene Costello and I are driving from the UK (North Shields…) to Bamako, Mali, a distance of over 4,100 miles, departing 26th December. Our planned route traverses Europe, taking a ferry from Spain into Morocco, then heads south, across the deserts of Western Sahara and Mauritania, into Senegal and finally crosses into Mali around…

  • Driving to Aleppo

    Driving to Aleppo

    In November 2011 as part of the Petra Challenge I drove from Newcastle to Jordan, crossing from Turkey into Syria and staying in Aleppo. Later, continuing onwards via Beirut and Damascus to Amman. Driving a British car across Syria’s land border is at the best of times potentially problematic. In the middle of a period…